Knight of Darkness

by Kinley MacGregor

  Pendragon—the High King of Camelot.

  Penmerlin—the High Merlin of Camelot.

  Sharoc—shadow fey.

  Stone Legion—cursed race, the Stone Legion is under the command of Garafyn. By daylight, they are ugly gargoyles who are forced to sit as stone (they can only move if they are commanded by the one who bears their emblem), but at night, they can move about freely, and under the light of a full moon, they can again take the form of handsome warriors and knights—but only so long as the full moon touches them. Should they leave its light, they will immediately return to their gargoyle state. There are those who say there may be a way yet to lift their curse, but so far all those who have tried have met with failure and death.

  Terre derrière le voile—land behind the veil. A term for both Avalon and Camelot since they exist outside of time and place.

  Val Sans Retour—Valley of no return. An area outside Camelot where the damned wander in eternal misery.

  Waremerlin—term for any Merlin.

  About the Author

  Bestselling author KINLEY MACGREGOR knows men. She lives outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and three sons. Raised in the middle of eight boys, and currently outnumbered by the Y chromosome in her home, she realizes the most valuable asset a woman has for coping with men is a sense of humor. Not to mention a large trash bag and a pair of tongs.

  Writing as Kinley MacGregor, she is the bestselling author of the Brotherhood of the Sword and the MacAllisters series, and as her alter ego Sherrilyn Kenyon, she is the New York Times bestselling author of the Dark-Hunter, Sex Camp Diaries, and BAD series.

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  By Kinley MacGregor

  Lords of Avalon

  KNIGHT OF DARKNESS

  SWORD OF DARKNESS

  Brotherhood of the Sword

  RETURN OF THE WARRIOR

  A DARK CHAMPION

  TAMING THE SCOTSMAN

  BORN IN SIN

  CLAIMING THE HIGHLANDER

  MASTER OF DESIRE

  Sea Wolves

  MASTER OF SEDUCTION

  A PIRATE OF HER OWN

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental

  KNIGHT OF DARKNESS. Copyright © 2006 by Sherrilyn Kenyon. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  ePub edition October 2006 ISBN 9780061746345

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