The Pulse Between Ash and Sand
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In a world where the sun devours the weak and the sand hides ancient hungers, a prideful rabbit princess and her lethal leopard-cat guardian are stranded in the maw of the sun. To survive the "Pulse" the dangerous heartbeat of the desert, they must strike a desperate deal with a rogue pilandok pilot brave enough to navigate the sand.
As the boundaries between predator and prey blur, Freya Alberone finds herself sandwiched between a soldier bound by duty and a rogue bound by secrets. According to the whispers of the Irvath, one is her salvation, and the other is her end.
She just doesn't know which is which.
As a sheltered noble she must brave a dying desert and a world of ash to find her sister, only to discover that her greatest survival tool is her heart.
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