Former mercenary Rin Sylleth knows she has a long journey ahead of her when she wakes deep underground with no memory of how she arrived there. She is determined to battle her way through the lurking danger of an endless maze of caverns and tunnels in order to return to her family. Magic and monsters hide in the deep as a masked threat endangers not only Rin and her companions, but also the entire High Kingdom of Bacra.
Courtney M. Privett is the author of The Malora Octet, Huron, and The Bacra Chronicles. She spent her childhood in rural northeastern Michigan and graduated from the University of Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology) in 2005 with a degree in ceramic engineering. She lives in Washington with her husband, three young children, and three useless cats. In addition to being a writer, she is an accidental artist, a classical percussionist, a former analytical chemist, and a vivid dreamer who has both auditory-tactile synesthesia and narcolepsy.
I like the way the book is written as a journal, but still has several different perspectives. Rin documents her attempt to find her way to the surface after waking deep in an underground cave. There are plenty of surprises along the way to include some very interesting characters.