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Naya
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Urzites – telepathic animals of many species found originally only on the southern island of ‎Urz. ‎
Receptives - humans who are able to hear the Urzites. Only about one person in eighty or ‎ninety is a Receptive. Most Receptives can only hear the animal who has chosen to be their ‎partner, although there have been recorded instances of very rare people, SuperReceptives, ‎who can hear more than one Urzite. ‎
The Warden Corps – a government-sanctioned force within which the Receptive-Urzite pairs ‎function. The Wardens and their Urzite partners are mostly used as espionage agents and ‎scouts in the ongoing war with the neighbouring nation of Zeranda, although some are also ‎involved in search and rescue and also in recruitment and the finding of new Receptives.‎

Hartan got reluctantly to his feet. “I’ll come back tomorrow,” he said as he passed ‎through the door I held open for him.‎
‎“Don’t bother. The answer will be the same.”‎
He turned as he stepped past me, that dreadfully earnest expression on his face again. ‎‎“Naya, you don’t understand!” he said urgently. “You’re a SuperReceptive. Don’t you realise ‎how rare that is?”‎
‎“How could I?” I said, wishing he’d just take the hint and leave. I didn’t want to have to ‎slam the door in his face, but it was beginning to look as though that was the only way I was ‎going to get rid of him. “I’d never heard the term before tonight.”‎
‎“There have only ever been a handful of SuperReceptives reported,” Hartan said. “Even ‎if we assume that there were as many again that weren’t recorded, that still means only one or ‎two in each generation. We need you, Naya. You can’t just sit here and sell vegetables and ‎ignore such a great gift.”‎
‎“Watch me,” I said. “Just because I can talk to more animals than someone else can ‎doesn’t mean I’m going to be a better spy, does it? I don’t want to be a spy, Hartan. I’m ‎perfectly happy with my life the way it is, and that’s my final word.”‎
He didn’t look happy, but he did at least finally take the hint and leave.‎
‎“Take my word for it,” he said as he stepped outside. “You will regret this decision.”‎
‎“I somehow doubt that, Hartan, but I’ll take that risk,” I said.‎

Naya Sheydaughter is perfectly happy running her business as a vegetable seller in her local ‎market. So when recruiter Hartan Igellson comes to town looking for her, she isn’t best ‎pleased, especially since the Wardens are regarded with suspicion in Harat and her neighbours ‎suddenly don’t want to know her any more. ‎

Learning that she has been identified as a Receptive it’s a case of thanks but no thanks. She ‎has a business to run. She can’t afford to leave it for a month just to find out if some animal ‎might want to be her friend, and she doesn’t want to be a spy anyway. It all seems very ‎straightforward. That is, until the recruiter discovers that she is a very rare SuperReceptive. ‎Determined to bring in the greatest find of his career, he sets about destroying her business ‎and her life in an effort to force her to come with him. ‎

But Naya is equally determined not to let him win in such an underhand manner. With ‎nothing left to lose, she runs away and takes to the road, determined to rebuild her life ‎somewhere far away from Hartan Igellson, Urzites and the Warden Corps. She has no ‎intention of having anything to do with an outfit that treats her the way Hartan has. ‎
But will she be left alone to build a future for herself that she actually wants to live? Can she ‎avoid being found when the entire Warden Corps is searching for her, the greatest find in a ‎century? ‎
Naya is the first book in a new fantasy series. ‎

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PublisherAshley Abbiss
Release dateJan 1, 2017
ISBN9781370202522
Naya
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Ashley Abbiss

Hello there. I’m Ashley Abbiss. ‎I live and write in beautiful New Zealand, where I live with one large dog, who looks nothing ‎like Friend from my Daughters of Destiny books. She is, however, almost as intelligent and definitely as ‎opinionated, and if she can’t quite speak in the way Friend does to Niari, that doesn’t really ‎hold her back much!‎I write fantasy, mostly of the epic variety. Let me say right up front that if you’re looking for a quick read, you’re in the wrong place. But if you like a substantial, ‎satisfying story that you can really get your teeth into, stick with me. I may have something ‎you’ll enjoy. There’s no graphic sex in my books. If that’s what you want, you’ll have to look ‎elsewhere. There is violence, and there is swearing, though mostly of the ‘s/he swore’ variety, ‎nothing overly graphic or offensive. I also write about strong, independent female characters, ‎so if your taste runs to something more macho, or something more frilly and helpless, this may ‎not be the place for you. ‎I’ve always loved wandering in different worlds, be they fantasy or science fiction, although ‎lately I tend to prefer fantasy. The only proviso is that they have to be believable worlds, ‎worlds that feel real, that have depth and scope – and they must, absolutely must be fun to ‎visit. I read for escape and entertainment, and I don’t really want to escape from this world ‎into one even grimmer. Trouble, tension, and danger I can deal with, what sort of story would ‎there be without them? Where would Pern be without Thread, Frodo without Sauron, Harry ‎Potter without Voldemort? But there has to be hope, and there has to be a light touch. Happy ‎ever after does have a lot going for it, even if initially it’s only a very small light at the end of ‎a long, dark tunnel. My personal favourites include Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, Anne ‎McCaffrey’s Pern series, and the fantasies of David Eddings, and lately, they’ve been joined ‎by J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and a few others. Of those, David Eddings was probably my ‎greatest inspiration.‎I began to wonder if I could create my own world, one just as believable and multi-layered as ‎theirs. Could I create a world with its own history, geography, social structure, deities, and all ‎the rest? One that hung together? That a reader could believe in? It became a challenge, one I ‎really wanted to see if I could meet. So I dusted off my writing skills, learned a few more, ‎cranked up the imagination, and got busy. I’d always been good at creative writing, but ‎though I’d made a few attempts to write after I left school, none of them came to anything. ‎That was until I started writing fantasy. Suddenly, I knew I’d come home. ‎I quickly discovered that I’m not the sort of writer who can plan a book (or a world!) before I ‎start. I just can’t do it. But I can create characters, and suddenly the characters took on a ‎reality of their own and took over the stories, often to the extent that they actually surprised ‎me. And the stories worked. Their world worked. Sometimes I had to go back and fix the ‎odd contradiction, but mostly it worked and was very natural and organic. Even though my ‎first attempts were pitiful, I knew I’d found where I belong. I persevered, I learned, I wrote. ‎I discovered that the characters are key for me. Once I get them right, they tell their own ‎story. I was away. There were dark days during which my stories became my refuge, my ‎characters my friends. And I kept writing. There were happy times when I didn’t need a ‎refuge, but my characters were still my friends, and they drew me inexorably back. I kept ‎writing. ‎And now, I hope my characters may become your friends too, my worlds ones where you also ‎like to walk; perhaps even your refuge from dark days. Come join me in a world where magic ‎is real and the gods are near, where beasts talk and men and women achieve things they never ‎dreamed they could. But most of all, come and have fun! ‎Happy reading.‎Ash.‎

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