title: Blood of the South: A medieval mystical mystery (An Aelf Fen Mystery)
author:  Alys Clare 
description: "A mesmerizing story" (<i>Booklist</i>)<br /><br />"Clares impeccably paced sixth Aelf Fen novel (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>)
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  The Oldest Blood
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  F.E. Arliss
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  No characters, names, locations, or events from this book are anything other
  than pure fiction. Any similarity is purely coincidental and for the sake of
  storytelling only.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Table of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  1.Flight From the Inevitable
  
  
  2.Danger or Haven?
  
  
  3.Hallucinations
  
  
  4.The Items
  
  
  5.The Flat
  
  
  6.The Safety Deposit Box
  
  
  7.A Break From It All
  
  
  8.Settling
  
  
  9.The Decision
  
  
  10.The Shu Han
  
  
  11.The Lessons
  
  
  12.The Conversion Witnessed
  
  
  13.Queen or Not?
  
  
  14.The Coronation
  
  
  15.Changes
  
  
  16.Power
  
  
  17.The Conclave of Clans
  
  
  18.Rage
  
  
  19.The Veil Sheared
  
  
  20.Peace
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
  Flight From the Inevitable
  
  
  
  
  
  Remington Arana Hartsel was stoned. She’d gotten stoned on a glass of
  excellent red wine, an almost orgasmic brioche of foie gras, then a twenty-
  year old tawny p