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The Making Of An Overlord
HE SITS IN THE shuddering darkness with his arms clasped around the shoulders of his hound. The dog tolerates the confinement for just long enough to show he cares, then wriggles free and abuses his master’s tear-stained face with kisses.
The boy laughs, then wraps one hand firmly over his own mouth, fingers sealing emotions in tight. His father must not hear. He pushes the hound, still only a handful of months old, away from his face and into the straw.
The dog is good-natured about the rejection, upending himself to present his belly and waving his paws invitingly. The boy obliges with a belly rub.
The magic comes questing, stinging like ice, smooth as seeping oil and just as false: a slick of shimmer overcoating magic that’s meant to smother and claim and choke. The boy’s heart flutters like the pulse of a dying bird. He snatches at the dog. He doesn’t let himself whisper ‘no’, because it’s possible his father hasn’t found him yet, is just checking in here to be thorough—but he isn’t hopeful. Dread weighs him down like a bad meal, a meal he’s been ingesting every day of his life through every pore in his skin. His body knows this feeling all too well…
Table Of Contents
- The Boy Named No (Liana Brooks)*
- The Making Of An Overlord (Amy Laurens)
- Midsummer Queen (Liana Brooks)*
- What Blood Can Do (Amy Laurens)*
- Welcome To Dark Dale (Liana Brooks)*
- Wreath-Bearer (Amy Laurens)*
- Red Planet Refugees (Liana Brooks)*
- The Peculiar Claustrophobia Of Loneliness (Amy Laurens)*
- Perfect Destruction (Amy Laurens)*
- The Dog Is Dead (Liana Brooks)*
- Dream Away (Liana Brooks)*
- Confessions (Amy Laurens)*
- The Powers That Be (Amy Laurens)*
- Seven Things (Amy Laurens)*
- Happily, Red (Amy Laurens)*
- Happily Ever After (Liana Brooks)*
- Published Author (Liana Brooks)*
- Off The Rack (Liana Brooks)*
- Adam, Be A Star (Amy Laurens)*
- Level Nine (Liana Brooks)*
- Emalia’s Lanterns (Liana Brooks)*
- Answer The Question (Amy Laurens)*
- Not Quite Cinderella (Liana Brooks)*
- As Long As I Live (Amy Laurens)*
- Oath Breaker (Amy Laurens)*
- My Grandmother Carries A Machete (Liana Brooks)*
- Venus (Liana Brooks)*
- Seven Reasons I Said No (Liana Brooks)*
- The Wasporcist (Amy Laurens)*
- Aftermath (Amy Laurens)*
- When War Came To Town (Amy Laurens)*
- The Lies We Know (Liana Brooks)*
- Anything For You (Amy Laurens)*
- Saved (Liana Brooks)*
- The Other Carly (Amy Laurens)*
- The Unicorn’s Gift (Amy Laurens)
- Shadows (Amy Laurens)*
- Purity (Amy Laurens)*
* Subsequently released as part of the Inklet collection, though sometimes with a different title.