Darkspire Reaches
C.N Lesley
Language: English
Pages: 250
ISBN: B00DJE8RP4
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
“...the kind of enveloping world-building and characterization that can cause you to look up hours later and only then notice that while you were immersed in the book the sun has set and you've missed a meal. Or two."
Wendy S. Delmater, Abyss & Apex Magazine
The wyvern has hunted for the young outcast all her life; a day will come when, after being rejected by civilisation and the tribes, she must at last face him.
Abandoned as a sacrifice to the wyvern, a young girl is raised to fear the beast her adoptive clan believes meant to kill her. When the Emperor outlaws all magic, Raven is forced to flee from her home with her foster mother, for both are judged as witches. Now an outcast, she lives at the mercy of others, forever pursued by the wyvern. Soon her life will change forever.
A unique and unsettling romantic adventure about rejection and belonging.
all people; all except one. Only Tomar, the baker?s son, had welcomed her whenever she had happened on the village children, and when they wouldn?t play, he?d walk with her in the forest. Since he?d grown to a man?s stature this year the sight or even just the thought of him brought a blush to her cheeks, for she liked his looks along with his care for her feelings. His growing beard fuzz had tickled her when he?d given her a shy kiss in thanks for one of Margie?s healing potions. Thinking of
exploded into a million motes of swirling silver. *** A soft mattress eased her bones, and the smell of fresh-baked bread pulled Raven into full consciousness. She was in a wooden hut with a single window covered with a thin weaving of beads. A stout door barred the only exit. A gray-haired woman sat beside her, and she rose to bow as Raven stirred. Her tunic of leather reached to her hips, and a full black woolen skirt belled beneath it to the ground. Leather thongs tied the ends of her
He returned to view the position of the troops camped by Darkspire Reaches. Kryling lazily dropped off his back in a free fall, opening his wings nearer the ground to spy on the Angressi. From the look of the site, a battalion camped there. Connor waited, hovering, sure that the little drake would see more than he ever could. No one paid heed to a drake, not even the Angressi. Kryling sent an urgent image for him to land west of the camp. Connor flew high and then wheeled, coming in at treetop
but her foster mother needed the crushed remains ready that day. Old Margie?s spells to the Earth Spirits would bind together healing magic with the waxing light of a full moon as the final ingredient. This was a new spell for Raven and one she must commit to memory if she wanted to be a healer, too. The table wobbled, sending the implements slithering across it. Dropping the pestle, Raven grabbed Margie?s scrying bowl, now dangerously near the edge. An ice-cold tingle ran up her fingers into
need you on duty here at first light.? Uber?s way of dealing with Raven?s questions had lost him another chance to explain to her. Stars, what was wrong with his luck? All he needed was a quiet time alone with her to explain gently. And now she asked reasonable questions anyone could have answered if the kit had been a baby. What was he going to tell her when the kit hatched? ?Well dear, he has cute little baby fangs and his claws are still soft.? Chapter 24 Connor stopped off at the hatching