title: The King Commands: Tales of the Borderlands Book Two
author:  Meg Burden 
description: This second episode in the Tales of the Borderlands series sturdily follows the first (Northlander, 2007) with a nearly seamless weave of action and romance amid ethnic strife. Sixteen-year-old would-be Healer Ellin is abruptly banished by the new Northlands king she adoresonly to find her Southern homeland being torn apart by ruthless Guardians bent on extirpating any signs of psychic powers among the general population. Hearing that the Guardians are also building up an ominously large private army, Ellin returns to the five royal Northland brothers who have adopted her, and who make up the rest of the closely knit central cast, to deliver an urgent warning. Ellin and the princes go a long way toward growing up here, as their skein of attachments develops further complexity and her relationship with deaf, scholarly, gentle Prince Flinn deepens. Burden ends the story with the Northlands poised to square off against the faceless Southling villains in the next volume. She also builds in plenty of reasons for readers to care about what happens next. Grades 6-9. --John Peters
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  # Reclaim
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## A Solstice Romance: Vale Valley Season Five (Book Eight)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Meg Embry
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Find Meg
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  [Prologue](part0006_split_000.html#5N3C0-7786dc5b1ca84670bf4541acd669d684)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter One](part0007_split_000.html#6LJU0-7786dc5b1ca84670bf4541acd669d684)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Two](part0008_split_000.html#7K4G0-7786dc5b1ca84670bf4541acd669d684)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter
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  [Chapter Four](part0010_split_000.html#9H5K0-7786dc5b1ca84670bf4541acd669d684)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Five](part0011_split_000.html#AFM60-7786dc5b1ca84670bf4541acd669d684)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Six](part0012_split_000.html#BE6O0-7786dc5b1ca84670bf4541acd669d684)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter
  Seven](part0013_split_0