Penric and Desdemona
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Penric's Demon
A Fantasy Novella in the World of the Five Gods
by Lois McMaster Bujold
read by Grover Gardner
Part 1 of the Penric and Desdemona series
On his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on the ground, her maidservant and guardsmen distraught. As he approaches to help, he discovers that the lady is a Temple divine, servant to the five gods of this world. Her avowed god is the Bastard, "master of all disasters out of season," and with her dying breath she bequeaths her mysterious powers to Penric. From that moment on, Penric's life is irreversibly changed, and his life is in danger from those who envy or fear him. Set in the fantasy world of the author's acclaimed novels The Curse of Chalion, Paladin of Souls, and The Hallowed Hunt, this novella has the depth of characterization and emotional complexity that distinguishes Bujold's work.
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Penric and the Shaman
by Lois McMaster Bujold
read by Grover Gardner
Part 2 of the Penric and Desdemona series
In this novella set in the World of the Five Gods and four years after the events in Penric's Demon, Penric is a divine of the Bastard's Order as well as a sorcerer and scholar, living in the palace where the Princess-Archdivine holds court. His scholarly work is interrupted when the Archdivine agrees to send Penric, in his role as sorcerer, to accompany a "Locator" of the Father's Order, assigned to capture Inglis, a runaway shaman charged with the murder of his best friend. However, the situation they discover in the mountains is far more complex than expected. Penric's roles as sorcerer, strategist, and counselor are all called upon before the end. Bujold delivers an astonishing tale that is not soon forgotten.
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Penric's Fox
A Fantasy Novella in the World of the Five Gods
by Lois McMaster Bujold
read by Grover Gardner
Part 3 of the Penric and Desdemona series
Some eight months after the events of Penric and the Shaman, Learned Penric, sorcerer and scholar, travels to Easthome, the capital of the Weald. There he again meets his friends Shaman Inglis and Locator Oswyl. When the body of a sorceress is found in the woods, Oswyl draws him into another investigation, and they must all work together to uncover a mystery mixing magic, murder, and the strange realities of Temple demons.
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Masquerade in Lodi
by Lois McMaster Bujold
read by Grover Gardner
Part 4 of the Penric and Desdemona series
Bastard's Eve is a night of celebration for most residents in the canal city of Lodi but not for sorcerer Learned Penric and his Temple demon Desdemona, who find themselves caught up in the affairs of a ship lost madman, a dangerous ascendant demon, and a very unexpected saint of the fifth god.
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Penric's Mission
A Novella in the World of the Five Gods
by Lois McMaster Bujold
read by Grover Gardner
Part 5 of the Penric and Desdemona series
In his thirtieth year, Penric fell in love with light ...Learned Penric, a sorcerer and divine of the Bastard's Order, travels across the sea to sunlit Cedonia on his first covert diplomatic mission, to attempt to secure the services of a disaffected Cedonian general for the Duke of Adria. However, nothing is as it seems: Penric is betrayed and thrown into a dungeon, and worse follows for the general and his kin. Penric's narrow escapes and adventures-including his interest in a young widow-are told with Bujold's remarkable energy, wit, and humor. Once again, Bujold has created unforgettable characters and a wondrous, often dangerous world of intrigue and sorcery.
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Mira's Last Dance
A Penric & Desdemona Novella in the World of the Five Gods
by Lois McMaster Bujold
read by Grover Gardner
Part 6 of the Penric and Desdemona series
In this sequel to the novella Penric's Mission, the injured Penric, a Temple sorcerer and learned divine, tries to guide the betrayed General Arisaydia and his widowed sister Nikys across the last hundred miles of hostile Cedonia to safety in the Duchy of Orbas. In the town of Sosie, the fugitive party encounters unexpected delays, and even more unexpected opportunities and hazards, as the courtesan Mira of Adria, one of the ten dead women whose imprints make up the personality of the chaos demon Desdemona, comes to the fore with her own special expertise.
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The Prisoner of Limnos
by Lois McMaster Bujold
read by Grover Gardner
Part 7 of the Penric and Desdemona series
In this sequel novella to Mira's Last Dance, Temple sorcerer Penric and the widow Nikys have finally reached safety in the duchy of Orbas when a secret letter from a friend brings frightening news: Nikys's mother has been taken hostage by her brother's enemies at the Cedonian imperial court, and confined in a precarious island sanctuary.Their own romance still unresolved, Nikys, Penric, and of course Desdemona must infiltrate the hostile country once more, finding along the way that family relationships can be as unexpectedly challenging as any rescue scheme.
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The Orphans of Raspay
by Lois McMaster Bujold
read by Grover Gardner
Part 8 of the Penric and Desdemona series
When the ship in which they are traveling is captured by Carpagamon island raiders, Temple sorcerer Penric and his resident demon Desdemona find their life complicated by two young orphans, Lencia and Seuka Corva, far from home and searching for their missing father. Pen and Des will need all their combined talents of mind and magic to unravel the mysteries of the sisters and escape from the pirate stronghold.
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The Physicians of Vilnoc
by Lois McMaster Bujold
read by Grover Gardner
Part 9 of the Penric and Desdemona series
When a mysterious plague breaks out in the army fort guarding Vilnoc, the port capital of the duchy of Orbas, Temple sorcerer Penric and his demon Desdemona are called upon by General Arisaydia to resurrect Penric's medical skills and solve its lethal riddle. In the grueling days that follow, Pen will find that even his magic is not enough to meet the challenges without help from dedicated new colleagues-and the god of mischance.
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The Assassins of Thasalon
by Lois McMaster Bujold
read by Grover Gardner
Part 10 of the Penric and Desdemona series
An unholy attack upon his brother-in-law General Arisaydia pitches sorcerer Learned Penric and his Temple demon Desdemona headlong into the snake-pit of Cedonian imperial politics. But they will not travel alone. The mission from his god brings Penric some of his strangest new allies yet, and the return of some of his most valued old ones.
This novel-length story takes place two years after the events of “The Physicians of Vilnoc”.
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Knot of Shadows
by Lois McMaster Bujold
read by Grover Gardner
Part 11 of the Penric and Desdemona series
When a corpse found floating face-down in Vilnoc harbor is not quite as dead as it seems, Temple sorcerer Penric and his chaos demon Desdemona are drawn into the uncanny investigation. Pen's keen questions will take him across the city of Vilnoc, and into far more profound mysteries, as his search for truths interlaces with tragedy.
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Demon Daughter
by Lois McMaster Bujold
read by Grover Gardner
Part 12 of the Penric and Desdemona series
A six-year-old shiplost girl draws the kin Jurald family of Vilnoc into complex dilemmas, and sorcerer Learned Penric and his Temple demon Desdemona into conflict, with each other. It will take all of Penric's wits, his wife Nikys's wisdom, and the hand of the fifth god's strangest saint to untangle the threads of their future.
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Penric and the Bandit
by Lois McMaster Bujold
read by Grover Gardner
Part 13 of the Penric and Desdemona series
Strange company...
When Rozakajin, road-weary bandit and army deserter, spots a hapless blond young man in a country inn with an intriguing treasure map, he thinks he's scouted an easy and lucrative victim. Attaching himself to odd traveler Penric seems simple enough, but when Roz's old enemies catch up from behind, his plans take a turn for the much worse. When Pen's claim that I never travel alone proves true in ways Roz never imagined, his world becomes more frightening still, but also much wider than he'd ever dared to dream.
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