title: The Sword Chronicles: Child of the Empire (Volume 1)
author:  Michaelbrent Collings 
description: <span>"Epic fantasy meets superheroes, with lots of action and great characters. <i>The Sword Chronicles</i> is dark yet hopeful, and very entertaining. Collings is a great storyteller." - Larry Correia, New York Times bestselling author of <i>Monster Hunter International</i> and <i>Son of the Black Sword</i></span><br /><br />"... intense... one slice of action after another... a great book and what looks to be an interesting start of a series that could be amazing." - Game Industry News
zlib_text: > > **SEDUCED BY HER HIGHLAND PRISONER**
  
  > > ALISA ADAMS
  
  >  **CONTENTS**
  
  >  _Prologue_
  
  > 1\. _The Borderlands_
  
  > 2\. _The Captive_
  
  > 3\. _The Betrothal_
  
  > 4\. _Rodric_
  
  > 5\. _In the Prisoner’s Cell_
  
  > 6\. _Choices_
  
  > 7\. _The Return of Duncan_
  
  > 8\. _Rodric’s Escape_
  
  > 9\. _The Village of Auldford_
  
  > 10\. _The Pursuit_
  
  > 11\. _The Battle of Auldford_
  
  > 12\. _Friends Reunited_
  
  > 13\. _Rodric’s Confession_
  
  > 14\. _Everything to Fight For_
  
  > 15\. _Arrival at Camp Montrose_
  
  > 16\. _Love Under Siege_
  
  > 17\. _Talking to Duncan_
  
  > 18\. _Hand-to-Hand Combat_
  
  > 19\. _The Wedding of Two Clans_
  
  >  _Afterword_
  
  >  _Taming a Highland Stallion_
  
  >  _Prologue_
  
  >  _Chapter 1_
  
  >  _A Free Thank You Gift_
  
  >  _Also by the author_
  
  > > **PROLOGUE**
  
  Rodric Montrose, the heir to the chief of his clan, stood up and turned to
  Malcolm Stuart, his closest friend. Rodric was a tall, well-made, heavily-
  muscled man, clean-shaven but with a magnificent mane of reddish-brown hair
  which hun