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    Ice Cracker II
    Ice Cracker II
    Ice Cracker II
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    Ice Cracker II

    By Lindsay Buroker

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    She’s wanted for crimes against the throne. He’s the empire’s most notorious assassin. With bounties on their heads and soldiers hunting them, they’re not likely candidates for heroics. But when they unearth a plot against the military’s premier ice breaking ship, they may be the only ones who can thwart the saboteurs...if the soldiers don't kill them first.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLindsay Buroker
    Release dateDec 19, 2010
    ISBN9781458145390
    Ice Cracker II
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    Lindsay Buroker

    Lindsay Buroker war Rettungsschwimmerin, Soldatin bei der U.S. Army und hat als IT-Administratorin gearbeitet. Sie hat eine Menge Geschichten zu erzählen. Seit 2011 tut sie das hauptberuflich und veröffentlicht ihre Steampunk-Fantasy-Romane im Self-Publishing. Die erfolgreiche Indie-Autorin und begeisterte Bloggerin lebt in Arizona und hat inzwischen zahlreiche Romanserien und Kurzgeschichten geschrieben. Der erste Band der Emperor’s-Edge-Serie „Die Klinge des Kaisers“ ist jetzt ins Deutsche übersetzt.

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      Ice Cracker II - Lindsay Buroker

      ICE CRACKER II

      by

      Lindsay Buroker

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2010 by Lindsay Buroker

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      Amaranthe ran alongside the frozen lake, thighs weary, calves sore, ragged breaths steaming before her. The short sword belted at her waist felt ten times heavier than it was. An inch of fresh snow blanketed the trail, and thick flakes wafted from the steely sky. They stuck in her lashes and melted down her flushed cheeks.

      The marker came into view, and she dug a pocket watch free as she passed it. She groaned at the time, shoulders slumping.

      Maybe I can blame the snow, she muttered. Or the cold. Or maybe I can blame— She rounded a bend and almost tripped over two bodies sprawled across the path, —the dead soldiers on the trail, she finished, voice cracking as the breeze shifted and the butcher shop stench enveloped her.

      The soldiers, recognizable by their black uniforms and military-issue pistols, had died recently: slit throats poured steaming blood onto the white trail. A tangle of scuffs and footprints trampled the snow around the bodies, but no trails led away from the scene.

      Exercise forgotten, Amaranthe yanked her sword free. She crouched and surveyed her surroundings, wondering where the killer had hidden to launch the ambush—and wondering if that killer might be there now, waiting to do it again.

      Without their foliage, the skeletal apple and maple trees lining the lake offered little cover. A hundred meters ahead, the industrial section of the city began. Deep, dark alleys ran between warehouses and factories whose smokestacks belched black ribbons into the low gray clouds. Anyone hiding in those alleys would have had to race across a field of snow to reach the soldiers though. Closer to her, a gas lamp sputtered at the head of the first of hundreds of docks lining the waterfront. The dark hollow beneath the boards held her gaze. Between the snow and the coming dusk, the lighting was poor; someone might well have hidden beneath the dock.

      Even as she watched, a crunch sounded. Someone shifting weight on the snow? Her grip tightened on the sword.

      The self-preservation part of her mind suggested returning to her jog and leaving this mystery to

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