The Devil You Know
When Pallino learns about a plan to rig the fighting in the coliseum to eradicate his highly effective team of myrmidons before pay day, he and his lover, Elara, concoct a plan to ensure their survival. And so the foul-mouthed veteran turns to the only person on Emesh who can aid him: a local mob boss who might be as dangerous as the coliseum itself.
The Prince of Man
Many tales are told of Hadrian Marlowe, and in the millennia that followed his dramatic victory over the Cielcin at Gododdin—across hundreds of thousands of worlds—some of those legends get out of hand. Here is one such tale, a tale all historians agree cannot have happened, unless . . . ?