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The Heir of Ghlent
The Heir of Ghlent
The Heir of Ghlent
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Aralaiah has decided to go on with her teaching ‎tours in defiance of the Sorcerers. But, knowing that ‎the Sorcerers are trying to kill her is taking a toll on ‎her mental health. Red Queen is still insisting that ‎Aralaiah is Ghlent come again, which really doesn’t ‎help. ‎
And, if the Sorcerers already have agents up there ‎in Dracos, how long will it be before they mount an ‎actual military assault on the place? Varen Gebit ‎doesn’t think it will be very long at all. The ‎intelligence people believe it will come before winter, ‎and Ullra Mobit is trying to get the Dragonesque ‎troops in the Lowlands recalled so they can defend ‎Dracos instead. ‎
But, all that is someone else’s worry. There is ‎nothing Aralaiah and her team can do about it, so they ‎just continue with what they’re doing, teaching the ‎Dragonesque how to do better magic. ‎
Meanwhile, there is a welcome distraction when ‎Draken returns with Pryn, who has come to Dracos as ‎part of the drive to recruit artisans from the Lowlands ‎to fill the gaps left by the Dragonesque artisans, who ‎are now mostly in the army. The impending invasion is ‎almost forgotten as Aralaiah, Beda and Draken set out ‎to show Pryn around Dracos City and help her ‎establish her business up there. ‎
And then, Aralaiah and her team encounter a ‎badly-wounded dragon who claims to have seen ‎Sorcerers climbing the rocks towards Dracos, and the ‎war and the prospect of invasion suddenly become ‎very real and very close indeed. Did the dragon see ‎what he thought he did? And, if so, what does that ‎mean for the residents of Dracos, both human and ‎dragon?‎
Join Aralaiah Sentin, Rainbow Mage and her team ‎of tutors and dragons as they continue their mission to ‎educate all Dragonesque in the new magic against a ‎backdrop of invasion that may be even more imminent ‎than anyone believes. ‎

LanguageEnglish
PublisherAshley Abbiss
Release dateOct 12, 2018
ISBN9780463185599
The Heir of Ghlent
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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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