The Lost Child

Childbirth is supposed to be the happiest experience of a woman’s life, isn't it?

Not for Lady Mae Treelore.

Living within a region that employs a strict one child policy and a superstitious that regards twins as pure evil, giving birth to twin girls is the worst and most heartbreaking thing imaginable.

Mae’s not given any choice. Either she accepts the given fate of termination upon birth of her twin girls, or she gives up one baby on the pretence she gave both to a singular child and must endure a lifetime yearning for her lost child.
Not wanting to lose either of her precious girls, and hoping for a future where they can be reunited, Mae gives one of her children to a maid, who vanishes into the night and carries the child far, far away from mother and twin.

Years later, Jiva Treelore, the kept child, is told of her sister upon her mother’s deathbed. Wanting her children to unite, Mae tasks Jiva with finding her missing sister, with nothing more than a vague description of the town Jiva’s sister might be residing in.

With nothing more than a puzzle box with a strange script across the lid, Jiva goes out into the world to find her sister. Having only her sliver mare, her sister’s puzzle box, starting-to-mold-bread that she may or may not have nicked from cook, will Jiva ever find her sister and if she does.....what will she be like?

Romance, swash-buckling and a sisterly bond that will never be broken, this is the story of Jiva and the search for the Lost Child.