The Chronicles of Encompassing Shadows: The Ancient Fear(Book 1)
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Last published Sat, Apr 11, 2015
In a land where Dragons once ruled the world, elves once sang in their woodland citadels, and where Dwarves once lived on the surface; The Darkness is Awakening.
Drayven Pryde is the only child of Darrian Pryde, Grand Duke of Molines, and is thirteenth in line to the Imperial Throne of Ferraine. He had been scholarly as a child, until a few years ago, when he told the master-at-arms to teach the old sword ways. Now, aged seventeen, he is one of the most talented military strategists the empire can remember.
Hadwin the Warsworn, a world-weary veteran, who has been fighting battles for the Kings of Norvarria for over four decades. A hero of legend in his home nation, and a respected nemesis abroad, all he wants is some peace to nurse his war-tortured mind.
Cyrennia Dey-Felaynira is an elven slave to a cold mistress, who makes her and other slaves work all day and night making intricate laces, which her mistress sells throughout the empire. She has a willful-spirit and a dangerous sense of adventure, and dreams of the day she can strangle her mistress with her own lace.
The curious weaves of fate have tied three unlikely people together, who will uncover treachery, mysteries, and a plot millenniums in the making.
For The Darkness is rising... Again.
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