The World Within

The second in the Wild Edged Magic series by award winning writer, Simon J. Cooper, this is a story about unknown potential against untold malice.

First paragraph:

Mira knew Icanos could be a great sorcerer, but not this way. This was too risky. She stood in the ring of sapling hawthorns in the croft's top field, before the mountain proper. Through the blossoming foliage she saw smoke drift from the chimney of their cottage, down the glen. It didn't seem like two years since they'd first warmed that hearth. She turned to Icanos.