Warping the Weave

Book 1 of the medieval fantasy adventure series 'Mer'edrynn'. 

Four young people band together to fight a rising tide of evil, and an army bent on destruction and domination, in a world that has forgotten war.
Von Adamm and his power-hungry army of men intend removing every obstacle to their goal of world-domination - and the destruction of any species, be it mages, elves, dwarves who get in their way. The Adammites want to impose their new way with its strict rules and regulations, and adherence to protocol. The freedoms of the old world are gone, fear replaces love, families are broken down, peace turns into civil war.
And the Adammites are not even aware their God of Death is using them simply as pawns in his game.
The game of Death.

Book 1, 'Warping the Weave'.
"The gritty, greasy smell of burnt and blackened bones invaded Dane's nostrils as he strode through the narrow street, his all too expressive face betrayed his feelings, his mouth curled up in distaste. Chicken bones or perhaps the remains of a hog roast, crackling and shattering on a hearth-fire?
He hated that smell, too close to human, too many memories … too close to the charred remains of his father … the day the Adammites came to his island."

An invasion, a stolen relic and the search for a special and powerful gem mark the beginning of my tale of war, love and death.
Dane, an elemental healer mage sets out to lead a new life with Amber, a young woman gymnast with a painful past and a nifty line in dagger throwing, after a disaster at the circus where she performed. They meet Tamlyn, an elven knight whose bisexuality and sex-drive tend to get him into numerous scrapes, and Estrién, a deep-thinking Elven warrior with a strange name and even stranger heredity.
They agree to journey together to find a magical gem and become embroiled in a civil war of hatred and bigotism, 
They will face hardship, pain, jealousy, passion and love in their battle to awaken the gentle folk of Mer'edrynn to the terrible fate that awaits.