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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  # The Loss of the Royal George
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### W.H.G. Kingston
  
  
  This page formatted 2007 Blackmask Online.
  
  
  http://www.blackmask.com
  
  * [CHAPTER ONE.](lorg_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER TWO.](lorg_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER THREE.](lorg_split_4.html#1_0_4)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER FOUR.](lorg_split_5.html#1_0_5)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER FIVE.](lorg_split_6.html#1_0_6)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER SIX.](lorg_split_7.html#1_0_7)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER SEVEN.](lorg_split_8.html#1_0_8)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER EIGHT.](lorg_split_9.html#1_0_9)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER NINE.](lorg_split_10.html#1_0_10)
  
  
  
  
  
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  Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England
  
  
  
  
  
  The Loss of the Royal George, by W.H.G. Kingston.
  
  
  
  
  
  A beautifully written but short little book. The actual loss of the
  
  
  Royal George occurs in a few paragraphs in chapter four, but the whole
  
  
  of the rest of the book concerns a small child who had been brought on
  
  
  board the vessel by a lady presumed to be his aunt. The child survives