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pretty, than
the plaçee of a white. Not only her family, but her friends –
literally every other person she knows.”
    “I suppose King Solomon’s family thought him
insane when he chose wisdom over riches – not that, as King of
Israel, Solomon was ever in a position of having to wonder whether
he’d eat on any given day. At least in Boston she’ll be allowed to
hold a position in a girls’ school somewhere. Louis Rochier won’t
really cast the whole family off because Zozo put a spoke in his
wheel with his business partner, will he?”
    “I hope not. I don’t think so, since she’s
disappearing from town. She meant to literally disappear, you know,
without a trace, for that very reason. I convinced her to write to
her mother, at least. Casmalia can let Rochier know, or not.”
    “Care to take a small wager on what she’ll
decide to do?”
    January sniffed with bitter laughter. “Not a
chance.”
    “I didn’t think you would.” Hannibal poured
another dollop of laudanum into his coffee, raised the cup in a
toast. “To Marie-Zulieka then – or whatever name she’ll take in her
new life. Macte nova virtute, puella, sic itur ad astra , as
Virgil said.. Blessings on your young courage; that’s the way to
the stars . Though we had best pray she succeeds. I doubt
Casmalia will welcome her, if she ever comes back.”
    “No.” January watched, above the milling
crowd on the wharves, as the Mary’s white sails
half-unfurled, and the current took the ship from the dock. A dark
small form still stood at the rail, watching the water widen
between herself and all the world as she had known it. “No, she
won’t be back.”

 
     
     
    About the Author
     
     
    Since her first published fantasy in 1982 - The Time of the Dark - Barbara Hambly has touched most of
the bases in genre fiction. She has written mysteries, horror,
mainstream historicals, graphic novels, sword-and-sorcery fantasy,
romances, and Saturday Morning Cartoons. Born and raised in
Southern California, she attended the University of California,
Riverside, and spent one year at the University of Bordeaux,
France. She married science fiction author George Alec Effinger,
and lived part-time in New Orleans for a number of years. In her
work as a novelist, she currently concentrates on horror (the Don
Simon Ysidro vampire series) and historical whodunnits, the
well-reviewed Benjamin January novels, though she has also written
another historical whodunnit series under the name of Barbara
Hamilton.
    Professor Hambly also teaches History
part-time, paints, dances, and trains in martial arts. Follow her
on Facebook, and on her blog at livejournal.com.
    Now a widow, she shares a house in Los
Angeles with several small carnivores.
    She very much hopes you will enjoy these
stories.

 
     
     
    The Further
Adventures
    by Barbara Hambly
     
     
    The concept of “happily ever after” has
always fascinated me.
    Just exactly what happens after, “happily
ever after”?
    The hero/heroine gets the person of his/her
dreams, and rides off into the sunset with their loved one perched
on the back of the horse hanging onto saddlebags stuffed with gold.
(It’s a very strong horse.)
    So what happens then? Where do they live? Who
does the cooking?
    This was one of the reasons I started writing
The Further Adventures.
    The other was that so many of the people who
loved the various fantasy series that I wrote for Del Rey in the
1980s and ‘90s, really liked the characters. I liked those
characters too, and I missed writing about them.
    Thus, in 2009 I opened a corner of my website
and started selling stories about what happened to these characters
after the closing credits rolled on the last novel of each
series.
    The Darwath series centers on the Keep of
Dare, where the survivors of humankind attempt to re-build their
world in the face of an ice age winter, after the destruction of
civilization by the Dark Ones. Ingold the Wizard is assisted by two
stray Southern