The De'Nauguath Chronicles - Book 1: The Summoner's Daughter

Abandoned a decade ago in a sprawling, decaying city and fostered by a brutal merchant, Sóra Lightfoot's life is filled with silent agonies. Free to wander but bound by strange promises, she is little better than a slave. With few joys and fewer allies, she sustains herself with the simple goal of spiting evil by outlasting it. Her magic, only a trickle since her abandonment, can no longer maintain her health - and the ever-looming charnel air is never merciful.

When a strange child comes to her one day with an abstract offer of a reprieve, Sóra's path spirals into one marked by dazzling light and unspeakable darkness. Abruptly removed from Krócia's panic and squalor, Sóra finds herself in a tranquil mountain refuge. A kindly but scattered family's secrets give way to equal - and equally unexpected - measures of both healing and shadows.

But perseverance has a steep price, especially when magic is both an enduring savior and a volatile traitor. No longer a slave, she instead faces the burdens of choices that could destroy as easily as protect those around her - and some consequences are too acute for her to fathom. With the help of mercenaries, an exiled monk, and the survivors of a century-long civil war, Sóra learns more about the past than she ever dared to find - including hope.

But despite her newfound freedom, her mind is not her own yet. Something stalks her in dreams and visions too vivid to be coincidental.