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    The Sixth Choice
    The Sixth Choice
    The Sixth Choice
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    The Sixth Choice

    By M. L. Buchman

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    -a YA fantasy romance story-

    Hartane the Younger would give anything to not follow in his father's footsteps. But Elder controlled every step of his childhood toward that purpose. Today Hartane must choose his Lifemark—the vial of potion that sets his one true skill for life—into precisely what Elder demands.

    Rania's heritage as daughter of the Queen and the future ruler of the kingdom constricts her to a single path. Mother's insistence that she possesses no destiny of her own infuriates Rania to her very soul.

    Both dread their ordained options among the five choices. Unless together they can discover The Sixth Choice.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBuchman Bookworks, Inc.
    Release dateNov 10, 2018
    ISBN9781386568025
    The Sixth Choice
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    M. L. Buchman

    USA Today and Amazon #1 Bestseller M. L. "Matt" Buchman has 70+ action-adventure thriller and military romance novels, 100 short stories, and lotsa audiobooks. PW says: “Tom Clancy fans open to a strong female lead will clamor for more.” Booklist declared: “3X Top 10 of the Year.” A project manager with a geophysics degree, he’s designed and built houses, flown and jumped out of planes, solo-sailed a 50’ sailboat, and bicycled solo around the world…and he quilts.

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      Hartane the Younger hurried along the narrow cobbled streets, careful to dodge the droppings of burden beasts. A small pack of children, deeply involved in a game of Evade, stormed up and down the street, threatening trade and unwary pedestrians alike. Once clear of the mayhem, he crossed the street under the nose of a prancer awaiting its rider and climbed the six stone steps worn into soft curves by the generations that had climbed before him.

      He squinted his eyes to block his wavering reflection in the mirrored front door of Cantel Kingdom’s Lifemark Shop—not that there was anything wrong with the mirror, he just knew that wavering was how everyone saw him. As if he was as ill-defined as the blue, river clay molded by a child rather than shaped by a master potter.

      But not after today. His seventh year began today. He’d at long last reached his majority. Choosing his Lifemark today—the one special power that would lead him forward—would surely snap his life into sharp focus.

      It just had to.

      Sweat stung his eyes and his hand was shaking as he grabbed the cool brass doorknob—the only one he’d ever seen, perhaps the only one in the whole kingdom. Hartane had asked three separate people who had gone before how to operate it so that he didn’t end up the fool trying to lift or push or slide. Grasp firmly and turn was the trick.

      It squealed as he did so, a high-thin sound not unlike when he’d slipped a slimy, hand-long, densel slug down the back of his little sister’s

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