Aelis de Lenti is a young woman of means, intelligence, and magical ability. A gifted graduate of the Lyceum, she is poised to begin her career as a Warden, a wizard trusted to investigate crimes and enforce laws. A city girl through and through, Aelis is shocked to find herself headed to a sheep-herding village hundreds of miles away from the world she knows. Her expectations of working out her contract in the comfort and wine cellars of the city of Antraval are substituted for clearing out her ruin of a wizard’s tower and helping farmers fix fences. What’s worse, her speciality is Necromancy, and her academic enthusiasm for her subject is not winning her any friends.
Then a war-wagon full of adventurers – including one particularly beautiful half-elf – and a golden treasure rolls into town from the war-torn wilderness over the mountains. As brother is set against brother, neighbour against friend, Aelis must use all her training as a Warden to solve the mystery. With the help of the half-orc trapper Tun, she chases her suspect into the wilderness, uncovering a partisan plot to reinstate a leader in the abandoned lands and beginning to unravel the mysteries and secrets surrounding Lone Pine.
THE WARDEN is the first book in a new fantasy series set in a vividly realised world with a wonderfully complex supporting cast. Aelis de Lenti is impatient and bossy, and used to getting her way – but she’s responsible for the people of Lone Pine, and no-one’s getting away with murder on her watch.
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Aelis de Lenti is a young woman of means, intelligence, and magical ability. A gifted graduate of the Lyceum, she is poised to begin her career as a Warden, a wizard trusted to investigate crimes and enforce laws. A city girl through and through, Aelis is shocked to find herself headed to a sheep-herding village hundreds of miles away from the world she knows. Her expectations of working out her contract in the comfort and wine cellars of the city of Antraval are substituted for clearing out her ruin of a wizard’s tower and helping farmers fix fences. What’s worse, her speciality is Necromancy, and her academic enthusiasm for her subject is not winning her any friends. Then a war-wagon full of adventurers – including one particularly beautiful half-elf – and a golden treasure rolls into town from the war-torn wilderness over the mountains. As brother is set against brother, neighbour against friend, Aelis must use all her training as a Warden to solve the mystery. With the help of the half-orc trapper Tun, she chases her suspect into the wilderness, uncovering a partisan plot to reinstate a leader in the abandoned lands and beginning to unravel the mysteries and secrets surrounding Lone Pine. THE WARDEN is the first book in a new fantasy series set in a vividly realised world with a wonderfully complex supporting cast. Aelis de Lenti is impatient and bossy, and used to getting her way – but she’s responsible for the people of Lone Pine, and no-one’s getting away with murder on her watch.