Gauntlet

Hell is a very personal thing…

Reaping death across the length of the Southern Kingdom come the invading forces of the Bloodking. Their final destination: the mountain outpost of Kerris, an inconsequential speck with no acclaim other than an ancient legend and a sleeping dragon. A place so beneath notice, it might have been ignored entirely of the Bloodking’s ultimate trophy had not escaped there.

Amethyst, daughter of the Duke of Kerris, defends this final outpost. Caught been desiring the life of a knight and being loved as a woman, Amethyst seeks a way to survive the coming tide of death and save her beloved people.

A failed apprentice crafter, Tellyv, may just have her solution. Having accidentally built a mystical object of wild and unpredictable power, he may have harnessed a force that even a bloodking cannot withstand.

But in the final days of the conquering of the Southern Kingdom, there is more than just the future at stake. Religions and love and beliefs clash in a final confrontation that may make or break a friendship. Unless the future actually succumbs to the hands of the most vile villain of all: Amethyst’s own father.