Nikolis’ parents are dead – murdered before his eyes. What’s worse, they were traitors to the crown.
At least that’s what he hears the village folk saying moments before he is whisked away to the castle of Highkeep. There he finds himself before the aged King Alginor, a man brought to a boil by his very presence.
With his fate hanging in the balance, Nikolis accepts an apprenticeship with the castle’s master of arms, a decision that catapults him on a journey fraught with danger, treachery, self-discovery, and burgeoning love, where his wit and the edge of a blade may be all that protects him from a world that is spiraling out of control.
Author:
Benjamin Corman
A lifelong fantasy and science fiction fan who has been creating new worlds and populating them with characters and their stories for as long as he can remember. As a kid growing up exploring the oft other-worldly woods and snows of New England, his love of reading was borne of the words of J.R.R. Tolkein, J.M. Barrie, Madeleine L'engle, LLoyd Alexander, R.A. Salvatore, Raymond E. Feist, Frank Herbert, and many more. In his own work, he always seeks to do something a little different -- subvert the usual, explore the seemingly mundane, challenge convention -- and hopefully says something about that which makes us both human and magical.
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