Nell & Rishi: A Legend of Arria: The Elemental Swords, #2

By Courtney Bowen

Nell escapes from the orphanage where she was raised. She finds a rowboat and sails away downriver to the ocean.

As Nell wanders, searching for a future, she comes across a young man named Rishi riding a horse. She hitches a ride with him, and finds herself on an incredible adventure that will decide the fate of a kingdom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Courtney Bowen
• Release date: Mar 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215950791

Courtney Bowen

Courtney Bowen fell in love with fantasy fiction at a young age and started writing it as a preteen. She wrote her first version of the Arria series in junior high and high school, and worked on a couple more versions. She’s also written several novels and short stories in Arria’s multiverse. She writes in other genres like romance, adventure, sci-fi and poetry. She first wrote Tarn & Beck: The Cursed Coin under the pseudonym Roger Nickleby. She continues to write the Tarn & Beck series, featuring other characters. So far, she has been a quarter-finalist in the 2019 Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition, the 2020 Screencraft Animation Screenplay Competition, and the Winter 2021 Los Angeles International Screenplay awards.

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Dedicated to

Finding out that what you lost

A long time ago has a way of

Coming back to you when

You need it most. Many thanks.

Once upon a time, before Basha and Tau’s Cup, I wrote about a girl getting lost in a rowboat and drifting onto the shores of Arria. That story was lost in the midst of a computer transition and floppy discs being phased out. But the vague memory of it remained with me. So as best I can, and based on the new Arria mythology, I’m going to revive its ghost, a shadow of its former self. I hope you enjoy it.

Courtney Bowen

NELL KNELT ON THE FLOOR, eyeing the shoes of the headmistress Ardelle. She measured how long the headmistress spoke, about three minutes, before