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    Defender
    Defender
    Defender
    Ebook35 pages28 minutes

    Defender

    By Jonathan Traynor

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    A young woman loses her father, and now the fate of her village and all the Western Hills rests on her. What she has learned could defeat the Overlord, or it could lead to death and dedtruction.

    She learns that she could be the first ever female Defender - the first to fight, to cast the spells and enjoin battle with the man who would enslave a world with his knights and his evil.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJonathan Traynor
    Release dateMar 11, 2012
    ISBN9781476036892
    Defender
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    Jonathan Traynor

    Jonathan Traynor is a 46-year-old public relations professional; part of an in-house PR team that has won countless awards. Prior to this he was a full-time journalist on a number of Northern Ireland newspapers. He currently also writes for several Northern Ireland's hard rock and heavy metal blogs.

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