Ruffians And Roughnecks

credit: PJ Fitzpatrick

In a new Ruffians And Roughnecks post series, I’m featuring words that mean either a “bad guy”, eg ruffian or rogue, or a “rough diamond”, eg a roughneck, and matching a word a week with a character from my books, either Thornspell, or The Heir Of Night or The Gathering Of The Lost.

The definitions are taken from Merriam Webster Online.

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Roughneck: “a rough or uncouth person”

The perfect lead-in to a first meeting with:

Raven: a hedge knight

“The rider did not look much more...