In a land of tyranny and rumour, a desperate elf flees death and destruction. Can she find sanctuary with strangers? Can ordinary folk dare defy the might of the Order of Witch-Hunters in a land where their word is law, and death theirs to command? What price is courage in such a land? A fantasy adventure, in a dark land where truth is relative and freedom is bought by blood. A Tales of Erana novella

British-born Alexandra Butcher (a/k/a A. L. Butcher) is an avid reader and creator of worlds, a poet, and a dreamer, a lover of science, natural history, history, and monkeys. Her prose has been described as 'dark and gritty' and her poetry as evocative. She writes with a sure and sometimes erotic sensibility of things that might have been, never were, but could be.