She saw men picking up their weapons and bidding their families farewell, saw boys in fields shaking hands as some among them put down their tools and heft shoulder bags. Saw wives anxiously reading letters from their soldier husbands, girls collecting supplies to send their men and wondering whether or not the boys they loved would be returning home. All across Anira—the places, the people, were all different, but the scenes were ever the same.
Aleine Fire-of-Skies is a young horse jockey growing up in the capital of one of Anira’s greatest nations, a gifted girl born of two very different peoples. But she and her family are about to be plunged into one of the most devastating conflicts her world has ever seen, and she herself is about to enter into the adventure of a lifetime.
Even as the storm breaks loose, a ray of sunshine is ready to chase the darkness away…
(I am merely experimenting with writing blurbs here—the story is so multifaceted that it was difficult to compress it to something so concise.)
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