Lillian protects the weak. Royce hunts them.
With the appearance of a mysterious stranger who can spin heat into rain, their worlds collide in a storm of treason, local laws, and buried pasts that threaten to destroy them both.
Lillian protects the weak. Royce hunts them.
When she hides a wounded man, Lillian expects events to unfold like they have in the past. Her father-in-law, the governor of a dust-strangled city, will grumble and scold. The hunters will fume about their lost quarry. The laws of city sovereignty will remain unbroken. Then life will return to the hot, oppressive day-to-day grind.
But this hunter is different.
Sure in the rightness of his cause, Royce claims the man he is hunting is a truce-breaker and a murderer. He’s not about to let anything get in his way, be it the city’s legal system or a pretty girl who sees too deeply into his soul.
As the hunters promise aid to the drought-ridden city in exchange for the wounded stranger, Lillian’s choices are limited–but not completely absent. Especially when the stranger climbs through her window and claims he can spin heat into the rain they so desperately need.
But, as political tensions escalate, it becomes increasingly clear that the stranger is more than he appears. And maybe Royce has been wrong about whom he was hunting all along.
This Christian YA fantasy Rumpelstiltskin retelling is the fifth novella in the Legends of Light series. If you enjoy deeply genuine characters interacting with deeply broken characters, strong but feminine female leads, and snark then you’ll love The Stormbringer’s Name. Pick up your copy today!
Note: Each novella in the Legends of Light series stands alone as its own story, though they follow a chronological order within the history of the world where they take place.
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