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The Tales of Zren Janin #4
Exile: A New Beginning: Book 4 of The Tales of Zren Janin
Zren Janin has friends in high places.
Through accident and adventure he knows Ngahuru of the West Islands, Miyamoto Suki, a diplomat of Vikland, Bima Ritwik the Softfoot, Solkka Ulani, a man who is more than the son of a coffee farmer, and Vikland’s prolific inventor and firemaster, Chul Swyler.
Zren is loyal to those he calls his family at Manumina. He respects the talents of the Wrens, who came to fight for a chance at a better future than Kerek City would offer, and he understands those who just want a place to belong.
But not all of them will survive. Some will carry scars that will never fade.
When the war ends abruptly, Ngahuru’s network collapses through betrayal and violence. The remaining Wrens fly to anywhere they think is safe. Vigilantes search for traitors, ragged soldiers look for someone to blame.
Who is still alive and who is not? What does the future look like when the people you love cannot be found? How can you search for someone when you don’t know where to look?
What can a future in Vikland hold when the Wrens wear the faces of the enemy and the Conrosans the voice of another language?
As the world turns upside down, Zren Janin wonders what truths will remain, what promises will be kept.
Through accident and adventure he knows Ngahuru of the West Islands, Miyamoto Suki, a diplomat of Vikland, Bima Ritwik the Softfoot, Solkka Ulani, a man who is more than the son of a coffee farmer, and Vikland’s prolific inventor and firemaster, Chul Swyler.
Zren is loyal to those he calls his family at Manumina. He respects the talents of the Wrens, who came to fight for a chance at a better future than Kerek City would offer, and he understands those who just want a place to belong.
But not all of them will survive. Some will carry scars that will never fade.
When the war ends abruptly, Ngahuru’s network collapses through betrayal and violence. The remaining Wrens fly to anywhere they think is safe. Vigilantes search for traitors, ragged soldiers look for someone to blame.
Who is still alive and who is not? What does the future look like when the people you love cannot be found? How can you search for someone when you don’t know where to look?
What can a future in Vikland hold when the Wrens wear the faces of the enemy and the Conrosans the voice of another language?
As the world turns upside down, Zren Janin wonders what truths will remain, what promises will be kept.
387 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 1, 2022
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About the author
M.L. Dunker
6 books18 followersM.L. Dunker has been a reader for as long as she can remember and when she thought the books didn’t reflect the people she knew and loved, she wrote her own stories.
A reader and a writer, she truly believes the most important piece of paper anyone will ever own is a passport. Currently she travels mostly in South, Central, and North America, India, and the Philippines as a global auditor.
She has post graduate degrees in library science and creative writing. She lives with another like-minded soul in a magical woods on the shores of a Minnesota lake.
A reader and a writer, she truly believes the most important piece of paper anyone will ever own is a passport. Currently she travels mostly in South, Central, and North America, India, and the Philippines as a global auditor.
She has post graduate degrees in library science and creative writing. She lives with another like-minded soul in a magical woods on the shores of a Minnesota lake.
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September 26, 2023
The war is over. Burned out of their home and abandoned, Zren, the remaining Wrens, and his friends leave Kerek and try to find a new home in a country where they wear the faces of the enemy. There is so much to say about the people, their experiences, their resiliency but I don't want to give any spoilers.
There are so many favorite quotes, but here is one of them:
"I am sorry you have lost Manumina." Devi looked at me gently. I felt for a moment he truly understood what it meant to give up the place you had first felt a sense of home. I wondered how a man who walked the same fields his father and grandfather had walked could know of such a thing... It was a question I didn't know how to ask, or if I should."
I just want to push the book into your hands and say, "Read it."
There are so many favorite quotes, but here is one of them:
"I am sorry you have lost Manumina." Devi looked at me gently. I felt for a moment he truly understood what it meant to give up the place you had first felt a sense of home. I wondered how a man who walked the same fields his father and grandfather had walked could know of such a thing... It was a question I didn't know how to ask, or if I should."
I just want to push the book into your hands and say, "Read it."
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