title: Avondale Inkslingers: An Anthology
author: Eveline Horelle Dailey Editor
description: The West Valley Writer's Workshop meets monthy in Avondale, Arizona at the Civic Center Library, with a focus on getting published and promoting their work. Twenty two members of the Workshop have crafted stories, memoirs and poems for this collection. This is the first of a series of Avondale Inkslingers Anthologies.
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to
  be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales,
  organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
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  First Avon Books paperback printing: February 2009
  
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  Chapter One
  
  Northern England
  
  1273
  
  "My lady!"
  
  That anxious cry made Evelinde pause in what she was saying to Cook and glance
  around. Her maid was rushing across the kitchens toward her, expression both
  angry and worried. It was a combination usually only engendered