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    Destiny: A Story of the Fey
    Destiny: A Story of the Fey
    Destiny: A Story of the Fey
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    Destiny: A Story of the Fey

    By Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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    Written as a prequel to Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s popular Fey saga, “Destiny” follows the Shapeshifter Solanda on Nye. The Black King wants her to use her special abilities on a job that will change the Fey forever. But Solanda wants to change the life of one child. Can she do both? Or should she do nothing at all?

    USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. Under that name, she publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov’s Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award.
    She lives and occasionally sleeps in Oregon.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateJun 30, 2010
    ISBN9781452343938
    Destiny: A Story of the Fey
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    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. Under that name, she publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov’s Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award. Publications from The Chicago Tribune to Booklist have included her Kris Nelscott mystery novels in their top-ten-best mystery novels of the year. The Nelscott books have received nominations for almost every award in the mystery field, including the best novel Edgar Award, and the Shamus Award. She writes goofy romance novels as award-winner Kristine Grayson, romantic suspense as Kristine Dexter, and futuristic sf as Kris DeLake.  She also edits. Beginning with work at the innovative publishing company, Pulphouse, followed by her award-winning tenure at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, she took fifteen years off before returning to editing with the original anthology series Fiction River, published by WMG Publishing. She acts as series editor with her husband, writer Dean Wesley Smith, and edits at least two anthologies in the series per year on her own. To keep up with everything she does, go to kriswrites.com and sign up for her newsletter. To track her many pen names and series, see their individual websites (krisnelscott.com, kristinegrayson.com, krisdelake.com, retrievalartist.com, divingintothewreck.com). She lives and occasionally sleeps in Oregon.

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      Destiny - Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      DESTINY

      Copyright © 2012 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      First published in French as Destin in Faeries: Toutes Les Fantasy, Hiver 2000-2001 First published in English in Creature Fantastic, edited by Denise Little, Daw Books, 2001

      Published by WMG Publishing

      Cover and Layout copyright © 2012 by WMG Publishing

      Cover and layout design by Allyson Longueira/WMG Publishing

      Cover art copyright © 2012 by Dirk Berger

      Smashwords Edition

      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

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      THE FEY SERIES

      in order:

      Destiny: A Story of The Fey

      The Sacrifice: The First Book of The Fey

      The Changeling: The Second Book of The Fey

      The Rival: The Third Book of The Fey

      The Resistance: The Fourth Book of The Fey

      Victory: The Fifth Book of The Fey

      The Black Queen: The Sixth Book of The Fey

      The Black King: The Seventh Book of The Fey

      SOLANDA WALKED the cobblestone streets of Nir, the capitol city of Nye, her tail up. She had a meeting with Rugar, the son of the Black King. He had sent a Wisp to find her, and it had taken the little creature nearly a day to do so.

      Solanda was in her cat form, as she had been since the Fey captured this repressed country—and thus very difficult to find. The Nyeians had many faults—they were prissy, overdressed, and pasty faced, not to mention abominably poor soldiers—but they did treat their animals well. She had found a family who fed her to excess, allowed her to roam outside, and pampered her as no cat should be pampered.

      How appalled they would be if they ever discovered the golden cat their daughter had adopted was really a Fey Shapeshifter.

      Solanda’s tail twitched once in amusement. Every day she imagined eating her lovely tuna dinner in the glass plate that the family gave her, and then Shifting into her Fey form just to say thank you.

      She didn’t know what would appall the Nyeians the most: the fact that she was Fey, or the fact that she would be naked. She doubted any of them had seen a naked woman before: the wife managed to change her clothing one piece at a time, without ever taking it all off at once, and the husband didn’t seem to think this unusual. He would probably be more shocked than his wife at

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