title: The Semper Sonnet
author:  Seth Margolis 
description: "Imaginative plotting and depth of character distinguish this centuries-spanning thriller..."<i>Publishers Weekly</i> <br /><br /> "When beautiful graduate student Lee Nicholson discovers a previously unknown sonnet that may have been written by Shakespeare she thinks it will make her academic career. Instead she ends up charged with murder and the discovery of the sonnet sets in motion a chain of events that could lead to the end of life on Earth. <i>The Semper Sonnet</i> is a wildly imaginative thriller that fans of Dan Brown and Steve Berry will love."Phillip Margolin, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author <br /><br /> This provocative and knuckle-biting thriller will have you on the edge of your seat as it careens through the hallowed halls of academia into the turbulent past. Hold tight to your farthingales: this is a roller-coaster ride of a book!C.W. Gortner, international bestselling author of <i>The Last Queen</i>
zlib_text: SEMBIA, BOOK ONE
  
  THE HALLS OF STORMWEATHER
  
  Edited by Philip Athans
  
  THE PATRIARCH  
  The Burning Chalice  
  Ed Greenwood  
  Any more business?" the head of House Uskevren asked calmly over the rim of
  his raised glass.  
  The lamplight flickered on the last sweetened ices and the wines served with
  them. The slight ripple of his set jaw behind it was the only hint of the
  disgust Thamalon Uskevren felt at dining in his own feast hall with his two
  most hated rivals—and creditors.  
  "Oh, yes, Uskevren," the man with silver-shot hair and emerald eyes so sharp
  they glittered said in an idle manner that fooled no one, "there is one thing
  more." Presker Talendar's smile was silken. "I've brought along someone who
  very much wants to meet you."  
  One of the four hitherto silent men who sat between Talendar and Saclath
  Soargyl—the fat, sneering son of a man who'd tried to kill Thamalon six times
  and hired someone else to bring down a sharp, cold end to Thamalon's days at
  least a dozen times more-lea