title: Dark Heart: Volume One of Dragon's Disciple
author:  Margaret Weis 
description: Someone, or something, is ripping the hearts from living men.
zlib_text: The Thrall And The Dragon’s Heart
  
  By Elizabeth Boyer
  
  Scanned, proofed and formatted by BW-SciFi
  
  Release date: December, 22nd, 2002
  
  A Del Rey Book
  
  Published by Ballantine Books
  
  Copyright© 1982 by Elizabeth Boyer
  
  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
  Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, a division of
  Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of
  Canada Limited, Toronto.
  
  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 82-72576
  
  ISBN 0-345-31445-X
  
  Printed in Canada
  
  First Edition: September 1982
  
  Third Printing: May 1983
  
  Cover art by Michael Herring
  
  Map by Chris Barbieri
  
  Dedicated to Capitol Reef, an oasis of peace.
  
  **Chapter I**
  
  Brak shivered under the onslaught of the howling, gusting snowstorm, which had
  suddenly and completely enveloped the two travelers, transforming the spring
  after-noon into a fury straight from the dark heart of midwinter. The light
  failed rapidly and the storm obscured 