Book One of a New Series!
Tank, once an unwitting tool of powerful factions in his southern homeland, spent years hiding from his past in an effort to stay alive; the people who used him intended it to be a fatal experience. He now works as a freewarrior — a type of bonded mercenary with strict codes of conduct.
Lia volunteered — even begged — to enter the service of a powerful man in her northern home, the rigidly austere, almost theocratic city of Stecatr. But as Stecatr slid from austere to harsh, Lia chose freewarrior training — not an easy thing for a woman to do, in such a conservative setting.
Lia’s choices take her far south of Stecatr, and well astray from her plans. She learns more than enough to start questioning everything the Stecatr Church taught her; and when she hires on with Tank, the questions — and dangers — only multiply.
As they travel, their very different pasts provoke unexpected trouble. Tank must come to terms with powerful psychic abilities he’s denied for years; Lia must decide between her own safety and that of her family.
A book almost twenty years in the making, Lies of Stone takes up some years after the Children of the Desert series ended, as the historical separation between the desert southlands and the lush northlands erodes. The Northern Church, thrown from power, is not taking their fall from the king’s favor well, the king himself is struggling to manage the chaos he’s inherited, and the desert Families are being forced to reinvent themselves in a world no longer ruled by the ha’reye and ha’ra’hain.
Against that background, Lia of Stecatr and Tank of Bright Bay must confront the lies and truths of their past — and step into a future neither of them ever anticipated.
A prequel story detailing Lia and Tank can be found in the recently released collection Nothing Changes.
Publisher: The Scribbling Lion, LLC
Author: Leona R Wisoker
Release Date: April 2024
ISBN: Print: 979-8-9889349-0-5 / ePub: 978-0-9913171-9-6
For Sales and Interviews Contact: Leona R Wisoker, lioness@thescribblinglion.com