Prince Zechaire Oren Bourbon is envied - caught in a family intrigue spanning the larger part of the century, in which banishment and bitter heart breaks mar the lives of the nobility.

The rules that once held Sardonem together will now aid in tearing it apart. With enemies at the gates and powerful enemies within, what will the Prince do to stop the siege of his crown?

The Flight of the King is the first installment in the Envy Trilogy; a part of The Cardinal Sins Series.

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Wolf and the Lamb

A WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations." The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

Translated by George Fyler Townsend. Aesop's Fables (p. 15). Amazon Digital Services, Inc..