When Elizabeth St John is asked by her father, King Vincent, to govern the duchy of Manusk, she knows she’s not in for an easy time. It’s a dark place ridden with corruption and thieves holding the honest people at ransom. What she doesn’t expect is to find an unmanned trader tied up at the docks and ship-wreck survivors on the beach. To make matters worse, neither one are from the King’s Heartland’s duchies. Who is the young maiden the survivors are protecting? Why is the ship in the harbor and where are her sailors?
Elizabeth struggles to find answers to these questions as the threat of war with marauding, neighboring armies looms ever larger and her fate is left in the hands of the mysterious maiden.
Mindancer Press
196 pp. ● 6×9
$11.95 (pb) ● $7.95 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-934452-00-4 (pb)
FICTION – Fantasy – General
FICTION – Lesbian
T.J. Mindancer may be a figment of someone’s imagination or just someone who likes to imagine she’s a figment while she creates worlds for her characters to inhabit. She has spent her life working with books as an academic librarian and as an editor for two publishing companies and has had some of her scribbled words published under a couple of pen names—at least one, not a figment. Her work includes the Tales of Emoria series of books and shorter tales set in the Emoria world. She also likes to make up places in the real world and write about them. She lives with her magical white cat Karma in her Tiny House of the Dragons in Northern California.