Ravenwild: Book 01 - Ravenwild

• Title Page
  
• Part 1
  
• Chapter 1: Gnomes inside the castle walls
  
• Chapter 2: "What do you mean, we're inside the acorn?"
  
• Chapter 3: "A wizard? Named Hemlock Simpleton?"
  
• Chapter 4: Stephanie gets hoodwinked
  
• Chapter 5: Trolls and Gnomes, up close and personal
  
• Chapter 6: Erik makes a plea
  
• Chapter 7: Who's the real wizard anyway?
  
• Chapter 8: It isn't brain surgery unless it really is...
  
• Chapter 9: Today I just might kill a wizard
  
• Chapter 10: Wishing something doesn't make it happen
  
• Chapter 11: Sometimes, ya just can't hide
  
• Chapter 12: Run, Doreen, run...
  
• Chapter 13: "These Gnomes have exceptionally keen hearing."
  
• Chapter 14: "Hey Human, wake up..."
  
• Chapter 15: There will come a dark time
  
• Chapter 16: "Shannon, the goats need tending."
  
• Part 2
  
• Chapter 17: The courage of Norma Webb
  
• Chapter 18: A boy is just a boy on any world
  
• Chapter 19: "Daddy's the Emperor now."
  
• Chapter 20: "Whose prisoner is he anyway?"
  
• Chapter 21: "Here's to maybe."
  
• Chapter 22: "I hate waiting."
  
• Chapter 23: What leaders do that non-leaders do not do
  
• Chapter 24: Beauty and brains
  
• Chapter 25: "I hate the hunting channel."
  
• Chapter 26: "Bring it on, Old One."
  
• Chapter 27: "The right tool for the right job"
  
• Chapter 28: The Bindu-ward art of magic and spell
  
• Chapter 29: Now we can be friends
  
• Chapter 30: "This gets a little complicated."
  
• Chapter 31: Probably why we married them
  
• Chapter 32: Jacqueline would be pleased
  
• Chapter 33: "How's everybody?"
  
• Chapter 34: "I am calling Kendra."
  

Ravenwild

Peter J. Plasse

Cover art by Mark Zug at
http://www.markzug.com
Letter graphics on cover by Michael Pierce at
http://www.piercedesign.com
Inner art by Michael Longenecker
The celtic border surrounding the character portraits was done by Neil Dring.

Copyright © 2010 by Dr. Peter J. Plasse and Michael L. Longenecker
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ISBN eBook: 978-0-9833400-0-3

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- Katy-Li-of-the-Bindu-Scriptures

Table of Contents

Part 1

Chapter 1: Gnomes inside the castle walls
Chapter 2: "What do you mean, we're inside the acorn?"
Chapter 3: "A wizard? Named Hemlock Simpleton?"
Chapter 4: Stephanie gets hoodwinked
Chapter 5: Trolls and Gnomes, up close and personal
Chapter 6: Erik makes a plea
Chapter 7: Who's the real wizard anyway?
Chapter 8: It isn't brain surgery unless it really is...
Chapter 9: Today I just might kill a wizard
Chapter 10: Wishing something doesn't make it happen
Chapter 11: Sometimes, ya just can't hide
Chapter 12: Run, Doreen, run...
Chapter 13: "These Gnomes have exceptionally keen hearing."
Chapter 14: "Hey Human, wake up..."
Chapter 15: There will come a dark time
Chapter 16: "Shannon, the goats need tending."
Chapter 17: The courage of Norma Webb

Part 2

Chapter 18: A boy is just a boy on any world
Chapter 19: "Daddy's the Emperor now."
Chapter 20: "Whose prisoner is he anyway?"
Chapter 21: "Here's to maybe."
Chapter 22: "I hate waiting."
Chapter 23: What leaders do that non-leaders do not do
Chapter 24: Beauty and brains
Chapter 25: "I hate the hunting channel."
Chapter 26: "Bring it on, Old One."
Chapter 27: "The right tool for the right job"
Chapter 28: The Bindu-ward art of magic and spell
Chapter 29: Now we can be friends
Chapter 30: "This gets a little complicated."
Chapter 31: Probably why we married them
Chapter 32: Jacqueline would be pleased
Chapter 33: "How's everybody?"
Chapter 34: "I am calling Kendra."

There will come
a dark time...

Part One

Chapter 1

Rolan Fairman sat admiring the beauty of the predawn sky. In the distance, out beyond the trees, stood the Great Wall. Behind him were snow-capped mountains that soared to dizzying heights. The new day was about to break wide open and the three moons, all full, cast a light nearly as bright as that of day, but softer in a way that gave everything an almost velvety appearance. He loved this time of day. It was the only time when the world seemed truly at peace with itself. Still, he knew it wouldn’t last, for this was a world at war, torn in many directions.