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Oct 2024
34m 3s

AN INVITATION by ROBERT BARR

JON HAGADORN
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A powerful and cruel Archbishop traveling with a 12 man escort is returning home after demanding allegiance from smaller fiefdoms in the region when he is suddenly surrounded by a force twice his size and given an invitation to dine with the female ruler of a castle he has not yet conquered, thinking she will be an easy victory.

 

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