THE SHADOW THRONE, Quote 1

To celebrate the release of THE SHADOW THRONE next Tuesday (woot!), I’m going to post one quote a day from the book. If you want to read the entire story for yourself, ask now if it will be at your  library, or you can find one wherever you shop for books.

If you are a Utah type, there’ll be a launch party on Feb 25th at the King’s English in SLC at 7 pm. You can also check my Events page for other places I’ll be signing (though there aren’t many public appearances this spring, I admit)

Quote 1:

Mott licked his lips and said, “My first duty is to you, Jaron, and I will gladly go in your place. But your first duty is to this country. Not to her.”

That only made me angrier. “Do not lecture me about duty! What else have I done in life but my duty? I disappeared in the name of duty and returned for the same reason, and I will fight this war because it is my duty to do so. No matter how I wished to do otherwise, each time duty presented itself, I answered. But not this time.”