A Not-So-Sacrificial Maiden: Book One of the Knightess of the Realm

by Kerridwen Mangala McNamara

Overview

Five years ago the Evil Wizard Henig destroyed Taridawil, turning the prosperous province into a Black Desert.

One year ago Karana's merchant parents were slain by Henig's foul minions as they took her to be betrothed to a lord's son.

Now, seventeen-year-old Karana has emerged from struggling to survive a brutal winter in the Forest of Ryylyn - a full year on her own with no human contact - only to discover that the foul wizard has demanded that the King turn her over or the rest of the Realm will follow Taridawil's fate.

Compounding the problem is that Karana is now the head of her powerful merchant House and has responsibilities that reach far beyond one small Realm.

Saving the Realm without ending up as a Sacrificial Maiden is... going to be a challenge...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781960160027
Publisher:	Rising Dragon Books
Publication date:	02/07/2023
Series:	Knightess of the Realm , #1
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.82(d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Kerridwen Mangala McNamara is an Indian-American with a Master's degree in Bacterial Genetics who lives in Flyover Country (the far northern end of the US South) with her husband, The Professor, four of her six children, three goats. The goats eat, The Professor plays chess, and the children largely unschool while Mangala writes. (The remaining children are in college - you can blame the oldest for the excessive amounts of math showing up in Mangala's fantasy novels... and the second one for better attention to staging of scenes.) Mangala is a former professional bellydance instructor, currently coaches FIRST Lego League teams, runs homeschool parent support groups, and used to enjoy knitting, crotchet and embroidering Temari balls but now is much more boring as she rarely does anything but write, argue economic theory with her 17 and 14 year-olds, and wonder loudly if her 11 and 9 year-olds do anything other than watch Minecraft videos. She owes her love of books and reading to her mother, who was a professional folklorist and could recite, from memory, stories from every nation in the United Nations.