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Telyn Gwndal has always feared Majik. But when her destiny brings her back to the place her nightmares were born, Telyn must take up a sacred quest to avenge the father she never knew. Her greatest ally is a man with a secret that could reawaken a past Telyn believes dead and buried, and destroy the truth she holds sacred. Can she trust him with her heart, or will her destiny force her to let him go?
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Outside the Camp House, Telyn wished she hadn’t been so hasty to leave. Against her will, her gaze was drawn to the mountain, and her insides twisted in a mixture of pain and longing.
Raiador.
"Quite a sight, isn't it?"
Her attention whipped to her left at that query, to find a man standing beside her. He had the long, plaited hair of a Borderlander, and his tarnished armor screamed mercenary loud enough the dead could have heard it. And yet, something told her he was neither.
"Excuse me?"
He nodded toward Raiador. "The mountain. Never seen anything quite like it."
She peered closer in the diming light, trying to discover what it was about him that convinced her he wasn't exactly what his appearance claimed. He was tall, even to her with her Bathron blood. That could be a Borderlander trait -- the few she met were easily as tall as she was. His mud-brown hair hung midway down his back, woven into the traditional Borderlander plaits. But there were secrets in his smoky-green gaze that told her he wasn't who he appeared. A sense of kinship to this man blanketed her -- she was more than she appeared, as well, even if she wasn't sure what that was, yet. This man's charisma told her he was far from the mercenary his garb declared him to be.
A well-worn scabbard hung from an equally abused leather belt, but his sword hilt had the gleam of care, and the glint of metal at the top of his scuffed black boots hinted that he was well armed. He wasn't a man to take lightly, and she had to wonder if he was friend, or foe.
"And you are?" She frowned up at him, daring him to meet her gaze.
He did, but those eyes remained shuttered, not allowing her access to his thoughts. "No one of consequence, Sera."
"Daughter of Ashes is a fantastic adventure about destiny and love. Esther Mitchell got everything right with this book. The setting is vivid, the characters three dimensional, the plot well thought out and complex. The conflict built throughout the story and lead to a suspenseful climax. The only thing I didn't like was having to put the book down and take care of real life stuff. If you plan to read this I recommend that you set aside a good chunk of uninterrupted time, because you're not going to want to be pulled out of the world Esther Mitchell has created...Daughter of Ashes is the first book in a series and I will definitely be reading the next."
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