Novel excerpts

You ride on in a furious madness, unsure whether you’re retracing your steps or zigzagging blindly toward the nearest city. Continue Reading →

You can already see the pillory and the crowd gathered ahead when a single shriek rises above the clamor: Continue Reading →

You can already see the pillory and the crowd gathered ahead when a single shriek rises above the clamor: “He was with them! Continue Reading →

If your steadfastness pays off, you’ll arrive in the city of Dahranjia before sunset and be one step closer to your final destination. Continue Reading →

You’re tired, and the weight of dejection drags at your bones, but you must press on. Your goal, however illusory, is the only thing you have left. Continue Reading →

If your steadfastness pays off, you’ll arrive in the city of Dahranjia before sunset and be one step closer to your final destination. Continue Reading →

You wake up—or rather, you are reborn—into a foreign room. Continue Reading →

The woman told you Zalenica lies more than two hundred miles away, and the next city—thirty miles to the west. Continue Reading →

Though you’re well rested, it’s not the rest that lightens you, but the lifting of that crushing dejection that consumed you Continue Reading →

ou ride through a haze of sand, barely discerning the horizon. Continue Reading →