High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sharra`s Exile is a fantasy novel written by Marion Zimmer Bradley as part of the Darkover series and is a sequel to The Heritage of Hastur. This novel is a complete rewrite of The Sword of Aldones published by Ace in 1962. The second chapter of book one (pages 39 to 57) of Sharra`s Exile was previously published in a slightly different form as a short story: "Blood Will Tell" in The Keeper`s Price.