Isle of Giants
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A high fantasy novel.
Hundreds of years ago, a sickness rose and overshadowed the peaceful world of Ayrith, a realm that was once whole and beautiful. Finally, after years of war and struggle, the darkness was conquered. Since that era Ayrith suffered a wound. A deep, festering scar of ocean that separates the land, in a time that is now known as The Great Divide. Each have kept to their own kind and lived in silence.
Until now.
A new war is coming, biting at the mad heels of a plague that has the power to control and twist minds and shatter spirits. The great divide will have to be forged into a strong, unbreakable army of hope and unwavering strength if either side has any chance of surviving the sickness that threatens to submerge their beloved Ayrith into darkness.
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