[Wattpad Featured Story: Fantasy Hidden Gems] When we were children they whispered about beasts that hid amongst the shifting dunes, dark things with sharp teeth and loud howls and an insatiable thirst. Animals that gutted their prey and left intestines rotting in the sun and bones sprawled out across dried riverbeds...
As a child, Ashne swore two oaths. With her adopted sister Zsaran she made a pact: one would never die without the other. To their mistress, the queen, who plucked them both out of the inhospitable marshlands, she vowed eternal loyalty. When a tiger spirit from a rival kingdom kidnaps the queen's only daughter, Ashne...
They say that Fire and Water were once friends. Nineteen-year-old Nyx can control Fire and has concealed her powers from her mother and anyone who would dare tell the Mad King. With her mother's kingdom on the brink of war, she agrees to train under the supervision of the Mad King's son. Despite her abilities, the...