SR VAUGHT is the author of Stormwitch, Trigger, My Big Fat Manifesto, and Exposed. She is a neuropsychologist for adolescents and lives in rural Tennessee.
JB REDMOND has been a lifelong reader and fan of fantasy fiction and has overcome complications from cerebral palsy to record his portions of this novel. Mr. Redmond also lives in Tennessee.
To my friends and family, who believed
in me when I could not believe in myself.
—JBR
To my son J B,
who has the power to inspire.
—SRV
Text copyright © 2009 by S R Vaught and J B Redmond
Maps copyright © 2009 by Laura Hartman Maestro
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First published in the United States of America in June 2009
by Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers
E-book edition published in April 2011
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the paperback edition as follows:
Vaught, Susan.
Assassin’s apprentice / by Susan Vaught and JB Redmond. — 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm. — (Oathbreaker)
Summary: Follows the intertwining adventures of Leyr Mab, high prince and heir to the throne, Aron Brailing, a farm boy with a destiny greater than he can imagine, and Dari Ross, a mysterious halfling with ties to a powerful race of shapeshifters long believed to be extinct.
ISBN-13: 978-1-59990-162-6 • ISBN-10: 1-59990-162-5 (paperback)
[1. Fantasy.] I. Redmond, JB. II. Title.
PZ7.V4673Asg 2009 [Fic]—dc22 2008043272
ISBN 978-1-59990-801-4 (e-book)
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Contents
Dedication
Code of Eyrie
Part I
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Part II
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Part III
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Imprint
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