INTO THE RUINED LANDS is a short story (really a novelette), just for Kindle and Kindle Unlimited. It is the first in a series of stories, set in the world of Irikara. Others will be published very soon.
Into the Ruined Lands tells the story of two girls, Talay and Shaali, who live in an patriarchal society that frowns on girls being self-assertive or adventurous. But Shaali's younger sister has a wasting disease, and treatments by clerics have done nothing.
So the girls turned to the mysterious Old Mother Aya, who is rumored to be a witch. The crone instructs the girls to go on a quest to the Ruined Lands, a volcanic wasteland to the west, to pick a flowering plant called sulfur wort -- a necessary ingredient for a healing potion.
But the Ruined Lands are dangerous, even for seasoned warriors, with volcanoes, volcanic gases, desert-like conditions, and horrifying beasts. Will the girls survive? And if they do, what punishment awaits them at home?
Read it HERE!
Cheers and happy reading!
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