Since their defeat at the hands of Valerius and his army three months prior, Aurelia and her friends are lost. Aurelia has renounced her country in order to do what she thinks is right—and to survive. Now, with Renfred in the dungeons and her fortitude waning, she sets off on a quest to find the Guardians of the Gift in the hopes of restoring magic to the land and driving away the invaders.
Inside the castle, Edana and the resistance attempt to thwart Valerius’s plan to give people magic by taking away their souls and turning them into soldiers driven by insatiable rage. But fear of her dangerous new magic holds her back, and navigating the political landscape might cause her to lose sight of herself.
And Mira, empress of Mydrost, intends to challenge Valerius and his troops over Temidorus, but to do so, she must forge an alliance with Queen Minerva of Sunniva, Renfred’s older sister. But the two leaders’ clash of opinions and cultures might sink them before they’ve begun.
They must trust in themselves and each other before Valerius’s hunt tears the veil between this realm and the next.
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Carrie Gessner received a BA in English from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. She writes fantasy and science fiction and drinks a lot of tea. Her short stories have appeared online at The Teacup Trail, Freeze Frame Fiction, and The Future Fire as well as in the anthologies Whispers in the Dark, Fall into Fantasy 2018, Gunsmoke & Dragonfire, and Beautiful Lies, Painful Truths.
When she’s not writing or reading, she likes to go for walks in the park with her greyhound. She’s a member of Pennwriters and Broad Universe.