In The Night of Day

Within one kingdom rests five places of power; the greatest of which is the Aurore - the centre of light. Avlyyn is one of the three remaining heirs of the Aurore - not that anyone who met her would know it. For eight years she kept to the shadows; at first fighting to survive and thereafter simply fighting; learning the art of murder and using it at will. However with the Bastard King upon the throne and her lands taken forever from her grasp Avlyyn thought she had left honour behind her...until Lord Brethrin Ash was executed. Now she finds she must pay a life debt, owed to a dead man, to his only other living relative - his daughter Daena. However the child is imprisoned within the Valley of Nihthelm - a place of darkness where a drunken, debauched and altogether evil man rules court. In the act of saving one girl Avlyyn will embark on a journey she could never have imagined - and once again find something worth fighting for. A fantasy novella and the first in The Fading World's series