There he manipulates the media, outwits the Site’s bumbling management, demands sixty-three billion dollars’ worth of treasure (because Smaug was said to have had sixty-two billion in his hoard), threatens to destroy the city-and installs a couple of food trucks.Īmbition drives her. The dragon (Zoth-Avarex, the self-proclaimed greatest dragon in the multiverse) immediately eats the person next to him, snatches a “princess” from the ranks of the Conjuring Department, and flies away to the Space Needle. In a triumph over its habitual inefficiency, the Site manages to carry out its plan and conjure an actual dragon to be used by the military. Harris, a newbie Conjurer, starts his first day of work at the Site bursting with excitement: he’s been brought on for an extremely big project happening the very next day. Soul-sucking policies and layers of stifling bureaucracy threaten to take all the fun out of magic. But that doesn’t mean that everything happening there is sparkly. Kept hidden by the United States government for decades, the Site is a place where magic is real. Will she have the strength and courage to take back her kingdom? Or will she turn her back on fate and choose her own destiny? Caught in the ultimate war between good and evil, Aofie must make a choice about her future. As she faces trials and tribulations, she begins to question everything she’s assumed to be true. Along the way she accidentally frees a dangerous goddess, befriends a mysterious iceman, and meets a magic-wielding nymph.īut threads of betrayal and corruption run deeper than Aofie imagined.

However, on the morning of her departure, she learns a horrific truth that leaves her questioning her true identity.įrustrated, but taught not to question the will of the gods, Aofie travels deep into perilous lands in search of her birth mother. When she comes of age, the centaurs prepare her to reunite with the humans. She’s spent her life training for one purpose: to take back her kingdom from the angel of death. A warrior princess with a dire future embarks on a perilous quest to regain her fallen kingdom.Įighteen-year-old Aofie’s Mor is an outcast princess, hiding in the sacred forest of the centaurs.

Realm of Mortals by Angela J. Ford