Warden (A Blackthorn Chronicles Story)

Good men make poor soldiers. It's been a hundred years or more since elves of the northern woods have come south to kill. But in Riverfield, that streak is broken. The town priest, its Marshal and a mysterious young girl named Maria, all fight to save the people from a deadly fate. But in a desperate chase across the mythical land of the Thornlands, their lives are changed forever.
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"A good man, that one." Isaac had woken at last. His guarded speech slightly slurred by the cut in his cheek.
"There are going to be a lot of dead good men if they catch up with us."
Isaac paused for a second in thought, "possibly." He said.
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In the Thornlands, few have seen elves in a hundred years. Yet on one evening a raiding party swoop to attack Riverfield, a small settlement in the North of the province. Suddenly, the townspeople are plunged into a desperate flight, and fight, for their lives. Isaac, the town priest, becomes an unlikely protector of the people, as events entwine his and other's paths.
Warden is the first in a series of Novelette's which tell the story of Isaac and Maria, the people they meet and the events which rock the Thornlands to its foundations.