** DOUBLE AWARD WINNER IN THE PROSE FICTION AWARDS 2017** Imagine finding yourself in Azeroth for real, a parallel universe of the game World of Warcraft and knowing of certain events about to occur. What would you do? Who would you trust? And would you dare fall in love with a charismatic NPC? World of Warcraft, the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, has become a refuge for 28 year old, office worker, Sarah Metcalfe. Playing for just over a year, she is utterly enchanted and hooked by it's characters, NPCs, lands and lore developing a particular fascination in the storyline of Illidan Stormrage ... On another plane, another time, the world of Azeroth and it's people are very real indeed. Their lives and storylines, have been somehow mirrored by the game in which nearly 10 million players on a planet called Earth subscribe to, yet of this they are oblivious. Until that is, the body of a strange young woman is discovered near Stone Cairn Lake in Goldshire. Sarah Metcalfe finds herself inexplicably in the city of Stormwind. Armed with the knowledge she has of events past, present and those still to come in Azeroth, she ends up in the care of Archmage Khadgar. But this in itself sparks off an unexpected set of events, and the Archmage finds himself in a battle he had not prepared himself for....

Charming, handsome and debonair. That is how many view Sauren Nightflame, leader of the elite Rogues Guild The Crimson Blade. But, beneath the polished exterior, a dark side lurks. Victimised from an early age by some of the bigoted denizens in Capital City, Sauren develops an indicative patience and he executes carefully planned acts of chicanery and violence against those who defiled him and his family's name. Through time. secret meetings with influential, cabalistic dignitaries all shape and mould the half-elf into one of the most powerful Guild leaders in Azeroth. Everyone has an Achille's Heel however, and Sauren's arrives years later in the form of a beautiful new student from Silvermoon City.