title: The Darkest Path (The Shadestrider Saga Book 1)
author:  C. B. Millander 
description: C. B. Millander is currently a student at Auburn University studying Exercise Science with a minor in Creative Writing. For him, writing is a passion, and the stories he creates are special to him. Aside from writing, he spends his free time learning martial arts.
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  # The Light of Scarthey
  
  
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  ### Egerton Castle
  
  
  
  
  
    
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  * PART I. SIR ADRIAN LANDALE, LIGHT-KEEPER OF SCARTHEY
  
  
  
  
  
    * CHAPTER I. THE PEEL OF SCARTHEY
  
  
  * CHAPTER II. THE LIGHT-KEEPER
  
  
  * CHAPTER III. DAY DREAMS: A PHILOSOPHER'S FATE
  
  
  * CHAPTER IV. DAY DREAMS: A FAIR EMISSARY
  
  
  * CHAPTER V. THE AWAKENING
  
  
  * CHAPTER VI. THE WHEEL OF TIME
  
  
  * CHAPTER VII. FOREBODINGS OF GLADNESS
  
  
  * CHAPTER VIII. THE PATH OF WASTED YEARS
  
  
  * [CHAPTER IX. A GENEALOGICAL EPISTLE](lscat_split_1.html#1_1_9)
  
  
  * [PART II. “MURTHERING MOLL THE SECOND”](lscat_split_1.html#1_2)
  
  
    * [CHAPTER X. THE THRESHOLD OF WOMANHOOD](lscat_split_1.html#1_2_1)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER XI. A MASTERFUL OLD MAID](lscat_split_1.html#1_2_2)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER XII. A RECORD AND A PRESENTMENT.](lscat_split_1.html#1_2_3)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER XIII. THE DISTANT LIGHT](lscat_split_1.html#1_2_4)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER XIV. THE TOWER OF