The Chronicles of Onyx Book One - Dawn of a Hero

***2024 Watty Awards Shortlisted***
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**Action/Adventure Second place winner of The Fabulous Writer Awards **

Completed!! Book One of the Chronicles of Onyx series. (FIRST DRAFT)

War. For as long as memory serves, it has consumed the lands of Druzatria, stripping away freedom and peace from the kindred who dwell there, claiming countless innocent lives as casualties.

For Onyx, life has been blood and sand. She is a gladiator, made for battle, bound by chains. She was forged in the Queen's arenas, raised not as a daughter but as a weapon, honed by violence and bloodshed. Abandoned by her father and gripping to the fading memory of her mother; she's learned to bury any weakness deep, to survive at all costs.

Though her power rivals that of the strongest, she is bound-imprisoned by the Queen's merciless hold, wielded only as a tool of destruction. The arena has sculpted her into an unbreakable warrior, yet she is locked in a relentless struggle with herself.

Haunted by the urge for something more.

Until an Orcish Halfbreed enters the pit, the clash of their blades ignites a fate neither could foresee-a fight that will alter the course of her fate forever. Setting both on a path neither expected.

Will she fall further under the Queen's iron grip, or rise and claim the one thing she has fought for her entire life?

Her freedom.