Destiny of Fire
Behind every fear lies a secret power
quietly waiting to be claimed.
Illiom has a secret – well, she has several, actually – but one in particular has troubled her deeply since she first became aware of it.
Once, when she was still a girl on the cusp of womanhood, a savage power had erupted from her causing serious damage to a would-be assailant. Regardless of the fact that he was intent on harming her, the man’s wounds, and especially his accusations of witchcraft, have haunted her ever since.
For in a land like Albradan where people fear and shun magic and revile anyone who practices it, there can be no room for a woman with such powers. It is for this reason that Illiom lives alone in a decrepit shack in the safe seclusion of the Sevrock Mountains.
Here, on the slope of a nameless mountain, she survives with her owl, her goats, and her secrets, haunted by the riddles of her past, and with no clue whatsoever as to her purpose in this world or in her life.
When Tarmel, a Rider from the capital’s Black Ward, comes looking for her, Illiom’s world is turned upside down. Armed with a mysterious crystal and an inexplicable – but irrefutable – summons endorsed by the queen, Tarmel draws Illiom out of her self-imposed exile and into the teeming hub of the kingdom, into a maze of intrigue, mayhem, and murder culminating in a quest of unfathomable depths, a journey to the very heart of darkness…
Destiny of Fire unfolds over 3 books –
Book One: Illiom, Daughter of Prophecy
Book Two: Keys of Awakening
Book Three: Into Forbidden Lands