The Blue Monk

A World of Korth Novel

When the only man young Caren knows as a father was murdered and none of his compatriots sought to avenge him, the young Acolyte of the Order of the Blue Lady breaks away from the pacifist beliefs she has held her entire life. Venturing off on her own, with her father's ashes and his journals in her pack, she seeks out his only living family - Ser Ailen's twin sister, the Lady Hilena. Having never met her 'aunt', she only knows the woman is married to a despotic tyrant in a distant, walled nation called Orutar.

Still garbed as a Blue Monk, she is able to enter Orutar. Upon arriving in the capital, she rescues a small child from drowning and finds the Blue Lady is still guiding her path; this child is Princess Nurika and she comes face to face with the tyrant - Emperor Silarus - himself. Its not long after that she finds that within days of her father's death, Lady Hilena was struck down by an assassin in a botched attempt on the Emperor's own life.

With the Emperor initially believing her to be a young male who has run away from the Order, he is intrigued by her wish to avenge Ser Ailen. He agrees to further her training while he seeks the truth behind the death of his wife and his brother-in-law, figuring it will keep Ser Ailen's adopted child safe from the danger still lurking around them...