Blue Ink
A Novel of Deymar
Deymar, Book One
Qaswara
Do we tell the truth if it lights the war?
Coming soon on Amazon Kindle and in paperback
A Novel of Deymar
Deymar, Book One
Qaswara
Do we tell the truth if it lights the war?
Coming soon on Amazon Kindle and in paperback
In the light of the embers Qayla saw his hand.
The fingers were blue.
Not the blue of cold, nor the blue of death. The blue of ink.
She could have shouted. One shout, and thirty knights would rise, and the whole plain.
But she did not.
She did not know, on the rise in the dark, what war would begin if she shouted, nor what war she would prevent if she kept silent.
So she kept silent.
From Chapter OneOn Covenant Night, at the Well of Oaths, the Chief of the Tribes is killed in his tent.
Qayla, Captain of the Knights of the Well, saw a man leave the tent that night, his fingers blue with the ink of the Keepers. She said nothing. Because speaking could light a war no one could put out.
The dead man's son swears to drink no water until he knows who went in to his father, and gives everyone forty days. From the distant Library comes Warda, a young woman who reads the past in things by touching them. And everything she reads takes something from her memory that does not come back.
The two women cross a desert of salt to an empire that draws water from the belly of the earth. Every step that brings them closer to the truth brings the tribes closer to war.
A world where magic has a price, water has a price, and the truth has a greater one.
Author of Blue Ink and the world of Deymar.
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