Heart of the Mountain: Sunder Series, #0

By A. R. Clinton

Betrayal leads to purpose

 

When the assassin Fiher is sent on a mission that reveals the true intentions of the Maharin Council, he must decide whether to continue on the path his kind have chosen or to strike out on his own, where he will be exiled as an enemy to all living beings on Sunterra.

 

Heart of the Mountain is the prequel short story to the Sunder Series. Book 1, Song of Sundering, is dark epic fantasy and available now!

• Language: English
• Publisher: A. R. Clinton
• Release date: Jun 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9781949912036

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Heart of the Mountain

A Sunder Series Prequel

A R Clinton

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Copyright © 2020 by A. R. Clinton & Dark Matter Publishing.

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War advances toward Prin's backyard, old knowledge of Source magic shatters, and the precarious hierarchy that keeps Prin stable is collapsing under the weight of refugees. While the leaders of Prin's Topside play games for power, the Underground factions are ready to take as much blood as they need to win.

Founded on the bones of a crashed generation ship, Prin is the only city that reclaimed some lost technology and built walls after the cataclysmic Sundering. Fortified by Terran knowledge and supported with Illaran magic, the region thrived until the Xenai, a strange Source-wielding race, marched from their home on the west coastlines to Prin.

Song of Sundering is the first novel in the Sunder Series, taking place 10 years after the events in Heart of the Mountain.

Read a preview on ARC's website

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Contents

1.Commandents

2.The Plea

3.Destroyer

4.A New Voice

5.The Show

6.The Threat

7.The Challenge

8.The Watchers

9.The Chase

10.A Beginning & An End

Thank You!

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Commandents

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Fiher

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Iam an assassin, not a murderer.

The target was too powerful to be left in the care of The Pact—too well guarded to be taken into the care of the Xenai. They called his team in. They were loyal assassins. Every kill made with love. Each elaborate plan, timed with precision, was a slow dance that expressed the deepest commitment. Their kind may be strange to the Terrans, but they burned with purpose--a unified goal across an entire species. What remains of Terran history tells them that this is something Terran kind never mastered.

Three weeks of hard travel lay behind them. Before them, the truth of the assignment that had been so pointless to keep from them. Fiher found her, adventuring on her own in the cave systems. She had snuck out again. She had no guards and there was no one for miles to hear her screams. She hopped from one section of the front cavern to the next, humming to herself.

He watched from the shadows as the child's hum burst into a sing song exclamation, What a beautiful cave! In these remote lands, finding such deep red rock is rare! We will have to be careful of the cave trolls!

Her voice returned to a hum as she bent and looked at the rocks, holding them to the cave entrance for light.

Did the Maharin Council really think that murdering a small child would be