Luck in the Shadows

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Luck in the Shadows
Author Lynn Flewelling
Country United States
Language English
Series Nightrunner
Genre(s) Fantasy novel
Publisher Spectra
Publication date August 1, 1996
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 496 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-55-357542-2
Followed by Stalking Darkness

Luck in the Shadows is the first book in Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series. It is followed by Stalking Darkness and then by Traitor's Moon and Shadows Return.

When young Alec of Kerry is taken prisoner for a crime he did not commit, he is certain that his life is at an end. But the one thing he never expected was his cellmate. Spy, rouge, thief, and noble, Seregil of Rhiminee is many things - none of them predictable. And when he offers to take on Alec as his apprentice, things may never be the same for either of them. Soon Alec is travelling roads he never knew existed, toward a war he never suspected was brewing. Before long he and Seregil are embroiled in a sinister plot that runs deeper than either of them can imagine, and that may cost them far more than their lives if they fail. But fortune is as unpredictable as Alec's new mentor, and this time there just might be........................ LUCK IN THE SHADOWS