Kyron
From a village with no name
The son of an outlaw and a mysterious mother, with a Mark no one has seen before. Life clings to him.
Book One of the Marklands
FS BALAN
Three children of the Order. One white city. And a Horde from the north that means to decide who is worthy of living.
Epic fantasy for adults · Coming soon to Kindle and paperback
The Book
Book One of the Marklands
In the Realm, a child born with a Mark does not stay home for long. The Order comes for them, and takes them to Iridia: a white city inside three rings of wall, set in fields of purple lupins.
Kyron is ten when the Order finds his village, a place on no map. Bella Finch was raised to read a ledger and knows what everything costs. Tarmon Oakarm wants only to be a knight. Inside Iridia's walls they grow up together, and apart.
Far to the north, a Wolf born in war has gathered the tribes into a Horde and given its killing a name. Ronnan means to kill the Great Seal, cull his own kind, and leave alive only those he judges worthy.
The Culling is coming to Iridia.
- SERIES
- The Marklands, Book One
- GENRE
- Adult epic fantasy
- RELEASE
- Coming soon
- FORMATS
- Kindle · Paperback
- CONTENT NOTE
- War violence and sexual content. For adult readers.
The Characters
Three who grew up behind the walls
Bella Finch
A Finch always delivers
The youngest daughter of wealthy House Finch, which rose to prominence through its courier service. Bella is expected to go to Iridia and come back with wings.
Tarmon Oakarm
The son of the Roost
The heir to Baron Oakarm's legacy, with one ambition: to be made a knight in front of an oak tree, like his father and his father before him.
The World
The Marklands
From the Roost to the Morgan Steppes, from Iridia's lupin fields to the Black Gate.
Iridia
The white city of the Order, behind three rings of wall, where the Great Seal rules and the Marked are raised.
The Marks
Every power shows on the skin in purple, and every Mark is a picture of what it does. Some no one has ever seen before.
The Culling
What Ronnan's Horde calls its war: not a slaughter of everyone, but a choosing of who gets to live.
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