The Book of Trials || ONC 2019
27 Parte Kumpleto When Veia Phelde is cursed, she hardly expects the ruin it will invoke, but will breaking the curse come at a cost more than its worth in blood?
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Veia Phelde had been satisfied with her life in her small cottage in the woods, never bothering anyone save for her job as a blacksmith's apprentice. But when she loses her job, Veia is forced out of her comfort zone only to run into a simple book that means so much more than she wants it to. With blank white pages and a title carved by knife, the single word that scars the leather can only be the work of fate, and the danger it contains... well, let's just say that's fate, too. When a devilishly handsome traveler offers to take her to the City of Magic to break the curse, Veia finds herself hopelessly entangled in a danger more powerful than she could ever know.
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~ 2nd place in action/adventure, Coral Awards 2021
~ 2nd place in action/adventure, The Pantheon Awards 2020
~ 3rd place in adventure, The Blue Rose Awards, August 2019
~ Written for the Open Novella Contest 2019, gen fic open prompt (since expanded; 45k word count)
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