150 years ago, the skies above the eastern continent blackened with taint and a star from its domain seemed to fall and crash into the earth, rattling and contaminating the impact zone. From the mist of the collapse flew a nightmarish and hungry mass of beasts and abominations - later designated "the Shadow Herd" - which spread out wherever they wished, destroying anything and anyone they could get their talons on. Within a few years, the Ahterilion Empire that ruled the continent was crushed into smithereens and the rubble from its extermination fled to every other corner, to avoid further bloodshed. Though the Shadow Herd eventually diminished, remnants of it has lingered for well above a century and in its wake, traits of the dreaded Woerdinn has been sighted upon people, a brand which can be both boon and doom.
With a century of opportunity, life eventually regrew and took back much of the land, but it remains broken and splintered. The ten previous provinces of the Empire live without proper lines, but the provincial rulers which it created - their Pillars of Concord - remain in spirit, if not exactly in name, clawing upon the leftovers, waging war and exploiting the terrain, some with the desire to emulate the power of old.
Eyren grew up with heroic tales of the brave Rittmark, the reputed knightly order of her northern lands, and the deeds they would perform for people in need. But after years of struggling with training and trials, she came to realize that the stories had been exaggerated, their honor a guise to promote themselves to the disparate lords that rule the provinces, being no better than common mercenaries. Disillusioned by their lies and determined not to be roped in any further, she left and started roaming the continent, wishing to provide what assistance she could to the lost and broken. On her itinerant path, she will find a solution to the Shadow Herd's menace which yet infests every corner of the earth.
Book three of Country Core Series.
From birth, Trinity saw the world differently than her peers. Not that she knew much of her peers in her childhood as she was home-schooled. However, that's all in the past. She has her own business, works hard and all-in-all, she's happy. For the most part, that is. As long as she still has her seclusion for which she has worked hard and values above all else, then she will be fine. If people would just stay away...
Leah has been blind her entire life but never let it hold her back as she embraced it with open arms. She hasn't ever known any differently and life is great. Or at least, it could be with these new changes. Moving to a new town, Leah is excited to begin a new life, but her family isn't exactly shy about their protectiveness of her. If only she could be somewhere, anywhere where people would treat her just as they would anyone else.
As their paths cross, Leah and Trinity's lives are forever changed, some changes for the better and others still up for debate. People can sometimes surprise us in the most exhilarating of ways, however, and they are just about to find out exactly why.
⚠️ Trigger Warning: This novel contains themes of isolation, drug use and social anxiety.
🥀 Mature/Erotic Content.
🏳️🌈 Lesbian Romance/Lit.
📚 Complete. Third draft uploaded September 24th, 2021. Final editing starting on July 2024.
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