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Trinket
Trinket is a coming-of-age fantasy novel about an eleven-year-old goblin girl whose peaceful mushroom-farming village is destroyed by ancient shadow creatures that steal her entire community—including her family—leaving her as the sole survivor.
When Trinket discovers that her loved ones weren't killed but taken to an unknown realm, she embarks on a desperate quest to find them. Her journey leads her through an increasingly dangerous wilderness where she encounters other refugees who reveal a terrifying the shadow attacks aren't random disasters, but reconnaissance missions by primordial entities whose magical prison has begun to fail after three millennia.
Guided by cryptic visions from an ancient forest and aided by unlikely companions—a guilt-ridden dwarf engineer and a traumatized elven scholar—Trinket must help forge an unprecedented alliance between scattered magical communities. As the last survivor of her village's unique cultivation magic, she becomes a crucial piece in humanity's desperate attempt to create a new form of the Unity Working, a magical network that could either save the world or destroy it.
But time is running out. With each passing day, more communities fall to the shadows, and the ancient prison weakens. Trinket must overcome her grief, master powers she never knew she possessed, and convince strangers to risk everything on an untested magical theory. Because if the Unity Working fails, the age of light will end forever—and everyone she's ever loved will remain lost in the darkness.
At its heart, Trinket is a story about how ordinary people can choose hope over despair, cooperation over isolation, and how even the smallest person can help light a candle against the dark. It explores themes of loss, resilience, found family, and the power of diverse communities working together to face seemingly impossible challenges.
When Trinket discovers that her loved ones weren't killed but taken to an unknown realm, she embarks on a desperate quest to find them. Her journey leads her through an increasingly dangerous wilderness where she encounters other refugees who reveal a terrifying the shadow attacks aren't random disasters, but reconnaissance missions by primordial entities whose magical prison has begun to fail after three millennia.
Guided by cryptic visions from an ancient forest and aided by unlikely companions—a guilt-ridden dwarf engineer and a traumatized elven scholar—Trinket must help forge an unprecedented alliance between scattered magical communities. As the last survivor of her village's unique cultivation magic, she becomes a crucial piece in humanity's desperate attempt to create a new form of the Unity Working, a magical network that could either save the world or destroy it.
But time is running out. With each passing day, more communities fall to the shadows, and the ancient prison weakens. Trinket must overcome her grief, master powers she never knew she possessed, and convince strangers to risk everything on an untested magical theory. Because if the Unity Working fails, the age of light will end forever—and everyone she's ever loved will remain lost in the darkness.
At its heart, Trinket is a story about how ordinary people can choose hope over despair, cooperation over isolation, and how even the smallest person can help light a candle against the dark. It explores themes of loss, resilience, found family, and the power of diverse communities working together to face seemingly impossible challenges.
406 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 7, 2025
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