Wizard's Price

NaNoWriMo 2016: Long ago, a king made a promise to a powerful wizard. In exchange for the wizard's protection from the darkness for his expanding kingdom, the king would give the wizard his first born daughter when she reaches adulthood. The wizard agreed and became the guardian of the people. However, no daughter was born to the king.

300 years later, the king's decedent is given a baby girl at long last. The current wizard of the kingdom is bound by magical contract to claim her or the kingdom loses his protection against his will. The king and queen, unwilling to surrender their child, begin a war campaign to reclaim her. In so doing, they unwittingly being stirring the dark powers that they have been protected from for 300 years.

The Great Wizard Rune had originally been reticent to claim Princes Lucia, even by magical contract. He soon finds, however, that her brightness is exactly what his lackluster life was missing, and she discovers a freedom she has never experienced yet always craved. What are they to do when trapped between the king's army and the evil forces that threaten all of their lives?