Jason Shannon

The Hounds of Harujin Jason Shannon

Courtenay has agreed to enter the Concubinage. She rides north to the headhunters' office - yet her dear sister, now cried out and refusing to so much as look at her father and brother, is desperate to cancel the contract, to get her out. Courtenay will not, Irbis vows, lose her virginity in the harem. Meanwhile, the khan's eldest son and one-time heir is tearing down the status quo in Ikh Khulan. He has yet to depart in his investigation, instead hiring defamed ministers and going after slavers, and meditating on the esoteric words of a one-hundred-and-thirty-five-year-old Buddhist recluse. And leaving his daughter behind, Adam strikes out for the coast, going after a woman of legend... Episode 2 of 8.