Immaculate Conception

by K. Scott Lewis

This is Part 1 of the novel Lightfall.

Aradma is born from light as a fully formed adult elven woman. She has no knowledge of who she is, but she carries the broken memories of a dead faerie civilization. She quickly becomes caught between the Duke's desire to unravel her mystery and the trolls who come to take her away to their jungle land and initiate her into the druidic arts.

Anuit is a young human sorceress charged with defending the border gates against the troll intruders. She fails and is banished from further training by her coven leader. She turns to her demon servants to take shortcuts to magical power, becoming the first necromancer the world has seen in eleven thousand years.

Arda is a darkling paladin, returned to Windbowl to visit her old comrade in arms. She quickly becomes embroiled in the mystery of Aradma's past and seeks to protect her from the plots of the others.

Everything comes to a head when Anuit's coven leader tries to steal Aradma away from the Duke for her own dark magic, Arda tries to rescue Aradma from the Duke's captivity and the trolls who would steal her away, and Aradma herself has to decide who can best help her discover the truth of her past.

89 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 10, 2012

About the author

K. Scott Lewis was born in California to Navy parents, and then moved all over the place such that when asked as an adult, "Where are you from?", he shrugs and says, "the U.S." He graduated from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Computer Science and then entered the Air Force to do somewhat computer-sciencey types of things and continue the habit of moving every few years. His personal interests took him into comparative religion, philosophy, and world mythology when he wasn't reading science-fiction or fantasy for entertainment. Tolkien's appendices and maps inspired him to world-craft as a hobby, which later grew into writing as a past-time while deployed. When he's not writing, he's composing music on piano and electric guitar, which he sees as another means of evoking stories.