It is a monarch's task to lead and protect their people, and few take this responsibility as seriously as Queen Rysana Vokun. Since ascending to the throne almost twenty years ago, she has fought a war against violent beasts of stone beneath her people's feet and without their knowledge, holding at bay the aggressors who seek only chaotic destruction.
But while the gargoyles' predictable attack is usually held off with ease, their recently increasing aggression has given Laceria's five archguardians the push to bring the matter to a swift and final end.
Queen Rysana, only the latest in the 400 year old line of archguardians, along with the help of three others set out to do just that, but when a storm leads them to discover the gargoyles' true intentions, their plan is tipped upside down. As a war of men is waged in her name and a battle between gods overshadows them all, Rysana must descend into the maze of tunnels and caverns that lie beneath Laceria's entirety to save the creatures she sought to destroy if she is to protect her people.
Kim Wedlock is a fantasy writer with a passion for magic, villains, plot twists and sour characters. After first being alerted to the wonders of fantasy by the Lord of the Rings, she has since indulged an undying love for creating fantastical worlds, with a mind for her somewhat contradictory interest in natural sciences.
Inspired now by folklore, science, villains and sarcasm, she's completing the final book to her trilogy, The Devoted, and already planning new worlds, magic systems, creatures and peril. Find her on Patreon, too, while she works on monthly short stories.