Victoria Goddard
A young man without a name lives in a tower at the edge of the world.
He is content with the orderly rituals and freedom to study wild magic that is his lot—or he was content, until one day he spies something in a bird's nest outside the tower window.
He's never left the tower before, but curiosity can be stronger even than enchantments ...
A standalone novella set before the Fall of the Empire of Astandalas,
Friends by chance—or is it fate?
Damian Raske and Jullanar Thistlethwaite are about as different as can be. Damian is a young swordsman, dreaming of being the best in the world, hardly aware of what lies beyond the outskirts of his city, let alone that there is a great empire on the other side of the horizon.
Jullanar is a gently-raised young woman from deep inside the Empire of Astandalas, aware that there are worlds beyond
6) Stargazy Pie
9) Whiskeyjack
Aurelius Magnus has not yet been stolen by the Sun and Moon.
He has not yet led the Empire of Astandalas into what will later be hailed as a golden age, nor met the man whose friendship and loyalty will be celebrated in legend for two thousand years.
He has not yet even earned the epithet "Magnus."
He is only Aurelius, twenty-one years old and already six years an emperor. War is all he has ever known.
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