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The Weaver's Light
A Master Weaver with Nothing Left to Lose
An Orphan with No One to Care for Her
An Enemy So Powerful Its Victims Deny Its Existence
With the loss of his wife and son, master weaver Callan Vellus has fallen into emotional darkness. Then when his hand is mangled in a tavern brawl, even his art is taken from him. But a dream vision rouses Callan from his stupor, spurning him into traveling north until he reaches the fire-wracked city of his dream. There he finds the destruction is worse than he had imagined. Locals claim that the catastrophe was caused by a freak lightning storm, but Callan knows his vision was something more than an alcohol-induced hallucination, that falcon-faced warriors with blue flame leaping from their bare hands are the cause.
Pashi is an orphan living in the ravaged city. With the help of the secrets her mother taught her before disappearing, Pashi not only lives safely in the streets, but survives a direct attack from the falconmages. Yet she finds herself even more isolated from her classmates and community after the attack, as they have no memory of bizarre warriors blasting the city with unnatural fire.
Drawn together by their knowledge of the truth of the bird-faced sorcerers and what they plan to unleash on the realm, Callan and Pashi scramble to find clues about the invaders and how to stop them. But the two uncover more than they’d bargained for, and the malevolent eyes of the falconmen turn on them.
With the fate of their world resting on their shoulders, will the two unlikely heroes find a way to to stop the invasion? Or will the sorcerers’ blue flames reduce their world to ashes?
A compelling story of courage borne of adversity, The Weaver’s Light reminds us that defining and accepting love, loyalty, and family are often ultimately the choices that save us.
An Orphan with No One to Care for Her
An Enemy So Powerful Its Victims Deny Its Existence
With the loss of his wife and son, master weaver Callan Vellus has fallen into emotional darkness. Then when his hand is mangled in a tavern brawl, even his art is taken from him. But a dream vision rouses Callan from his stupor, spurning him into traveling north until he reaches the fire-wracked city of his dream. There he finds the destruction is worse than he had imagined. Locals claim that the catastrophe was caused by a freak lightning storm, but Callan knows his vision was something more than an alcohol-induced hallucination, that falcon-faced warriors with blue flame leaping from their bare hands are the cause.
Pashi is an orphan living in the ravaged city. With the help of the secrets her mother taught her before disappearing, Pashi not only lives safely in the streets, but survives a direct attack from the falconmages. Yet she finds herself even more isolated from her classmates and community after the attack, as they have no memory of bizarre warriors blasting the city with unnatural fire.
Drawn together by their knowledge of the truth of the bird-faced sorcerers and what they plan to unleash on the realm, Callan and Pashi scramble to find clues about the invaders and how to stop them. But the two uncover more than they’d bargained for, and the malevolent eyes of the falconmen turn on them.
With the fate of their world resting on their shoulders, will the two unlikely heroes find a way to to stop the invasion? Or will the sorcerers’ blue flames reduce their world to ashes?
A compelling story of courage borne of adversity, The Weaver’s Light reminds us that defining and accepting love, loyalty, and family are often ultimately the choices that save us.
398 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 18, 2017
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Mara Fields
7 books4 followersMara is proud to have been born and raised in the Pacific Northwest where two of her favorite authors also reside (Ursla LeGuin and Patricia McKillip). Whether playing the guitar (rather badly), or painting, or writing, or cooking, Mara builds time for creativity in her life.
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May 18, 2017
Fantasy fans will be delighted with Mara Field’s The Weaver’s Light. This telling of an epic journey begins with introductions to our heroes: both of whom are struggling to get by. Callan Vellus is a drunk. He lives from bottle to bottle as he tries to fade the memory of his late wife and son. Despite his constant drunken behavior, Callan manages to stay employed for one reason only: he has an undeniable talent as a weaver…that is until one fateful night when his drunkenness gets him into a brawl with some other patrons of his drinking hole. The brawl leaves Callan with an injured hand, and unable to weave. Callan is at the end of his rope when he has a vison of strange falcon-faced sorcerers destroying a city with bizzare blue flames.
Our other hero is a young orphaned girl called Pashi who lives on the streets. She uses the skills her mother taught her to get by. Her mother taught her street smarts, but more importantly, she taught her the ways of ancient sorcerers. Pashi likes to remember the lessons her mother taught her because in her memory, her mother is still alive. She keeps her talent a secret and only uses her skills if she needs to. Pashi’s clever ways lead her to the docks of the city where she thought she might find a lost treasure. Instead, she witnesses the evil sorcery of the falconmages and their terrifying blue flames. Pashi escapes harm from the falconmages using her mother’s ancient teachings of sorcery, but the city she calls home is destroyed by the falconmages, who have the power to wield blue flames…
Callan and Pashi’s lives are woven together by their experiences, and together they embark on a quest that will keep readers enthusiastically searching for answers along with them! Mara Fields has a way of beginning chapters, or even paragraphs with seemingly jumbled bits of information…only to pull it all together by the end, leaving readers satisfied and curious for more!
Our other hero is a young orphaned girl called Pashi who lives on the streets. She uses the skills her mother taught her to get by. Her mother taught her street smarts, but more importantly, she taught her the ways of ancient sorcerers. Pashi likes to remember the lessons her mother taught her because in her memory, her mother is still alive. She keeps her talent a secret and only uses her skills if she needs to. Pashi’s clever ways lead her to the docks of the city where she thought she might find a lost treasure. Instead, she witnesses the evil sorcery of the falconmages and their terrifying blue flames. Pashi escapes harm from the falconmages using her mother’s ancient teachings of sorcery, but the city she calls home is destroyed by the falconmages, who have the power to wield blue flames…
Callan and Pashi’s lives are woven together by their experiences, and together they embark on a quest that will keep readers enthusiastically searching for answers along with them! Mara Fields has a way of beginning chapters, or even paragraphs with seemingly jumbled bits of information…only to pull it all together by the end, leaving readers satisfied and curious for more!
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