The Locket Saga
Fifteen years have passed since the Great Rebellion, a failed insurrection against the crown of Aralusia, and a strange pestilence has taken hold of the ancient kingdom. Its many farmers abandon their withering homesteads and make the long trek, families in tow, to the capital city of Cyrnych. A desperate last resort.
Following a brutal assassination attempt, the beloved King Lir clings to life.
While his daughter, Princess Laila, tends to the needy flooding the capital, his oldest son heads east to honor their father’s wishes and retrieve the youngest child of House Ethier, Prince Gabriel, and bring him back to the relative safety of the Royal Keep.
Like all royal children, Gabriel’s true identity has been concealed while he attends university in the intellectual city of Doru, an architectural wonder five-hundred leagues east of the capital.
As brigands exploit the disarray, another force will emerge from the ashes of history; whispers of an ancient power nestled deep within the earth and controlled by the descendants of a long-forgotten legend.
Gabriel will be forced to confront this power and its implications regarding his family, the throne, and the whole of Aralusia.
To the south, Colonel Drigon leads a company of cavalry to investigate reports of regular kidnappings, seemingly targeting the agrarian realms and depriving the kingdom of what little nourishment the parched land still provides.
A suspect emerges and leads them on a grueling pursuit to the one place Drigon thought he’d never revisit.
Are these events related to the Great Rebellion, fifteen years earlier?
What secrets do the history books hide?
Why does the world decay after two millennia of abundance?
Could the legends be true?