The Hounds of Harujin: Volume II

Courtenay has been sold into the Concubinage, shipped away to become a bed warmer for a noble of the Mongol court. Her sister desperately wants to get her back, and has run away from home to get to that office before it’s too late. But it is too late – a riot consumes the town and Irbis is lucky to get out with her life. Now she has only one real choice: join Courtenay as an imperial concubine.... Tamerlan is hot on the trail of the assassin that slew Chiledu. And he’s making waves with the court, openly challenging his brother – and getting closer to finding out the nature of the grand calamitous future looming above them all.... In the desert, more than 1000km north of her sister riding in to rescue her, Courtenay’s coach is ambushed, laid to waste in a bloodbath by a darkness so rare it’s barely more than myth: the Mongolian death worm. Now, their security gone, their guide and a number of concubines dead, Courtenay and three others are left to wander adrift in the vast Australian desert....