I Read Books: A Man Betrayed
A Man Betrayed At the end of The Baker’s Boy Jack, the eponymous baker’s boy, had fled the castle after learning he could do sorcery (blasphemous) having traveled for a while with Melli, he’s split off from her and taken in by a smuggler and his (unconventional) household. The good news is that there’s plenty of people wanting goods what with the war*. The bad news is he lies to Jack, claiming that Melli is dead and pointing him at the local guard captain as the culprit, to try and get both captain and Jack killed. Melli meanwhile has been sold to woman-traffickers. The good news is that the trafficker has a woman who can do small magics and knows that Melli is a virgin. There’s a market for virgins, the Duke of Bren will pay for them. The woman also discovers that Melli has a great destiny – a luck stealer. In Bren is a party from the Four Kingdoms seeking to arrange the marriage between Prince/King Kylock (he murders the king in the prologue, the news that he’s ascende...
