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    Egerius
    Egerius
    Egerius
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    Egerius

    By AM Kirkby

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    A story of ancient Etruria. Young Egerius is brought up by women after his father's early death; but there are secrets in his father's family, and as he grows older, he learns that he has a family he has never met, and is the heir to more than his father's slim estate...

    This is a chapter from 'Etruscan Blood', an epic novel of ancient Italy that will be published later this year.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAM Kirkby
    Release dateApr 4, 2012
    ISBN9781476416656
    Egerius
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    AM Kirkby

    A M Kirkby writes a wide range of fiction, including fantasy, SF and historical novels and short stories.

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      Book preview

      Egerius - AM Kirkby

      Egerius

      By A.M. Kirkby

      a chapter from Etruscan Blood

      Published by A M Kirkby at Smashwords

      Text Copyright ©2011 A M Kirkby

      All Rights Reserved

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, events, and locations are fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons or events, living or dead, are entirely coincidental.

      This file is licensed for private individual entertainment only. The book contained herein constitutes a copyrighted work and may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into an information retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means (electrical, mechanical, photographic, audio recording, or otherwise) for any reason (excepting the uses permitted to the licensee by copyright law under terms of fair use) without the specific written permission of the author.

      Also by A M Kirkby on Smashwords

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      Novels

      Etruscan Spring forthcoming

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      Children's books

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      Egerius

      He couldn't remember his father at all; not his face, not his voice, not even a looming presence far back in his childhood. Just nothing.

      Sometimes, just sometimes, he thought he could remember a tiny detail, an impression, nothing more. But even of these vague feelings he was suspicious; he wasn't sure if he'd really begun to remember, or whether he'd heard his mother talking about his father so often that he'd begun to weave her stories into his own memory, as if they were real.

      "You remember when your father came back from Tarchna?she'd ask, and he'd have to make some little sound of assent, before she'd launch herself on the story. He'd said ?oonce, and he couldn't bear to do it again; she'd become desperate, trying to prise a memory out of him, any little detail, it didn't matter what. It was like trying

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