Illusion by S.M. Boyce
(The Grimoire Saga #4)
Publication date: November 4th 2014
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
(The Grimoire Saga #4)
Publication date: November 4th 2014
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
Kara Magari is an icon. A hero. The people love her. The royalty tolerates her. She has everything—an army, allies, and a close circle of chosen family. They believe she will end the war, and they shouldn’t. She’s as scared as they are. She just can’t show it.
The war she accidentally started ends with a final battle that will either save or enslave her people. She will do anything to win—until she learns the cost of victory.
Braeden Drakonin is afraid of what he’ll become when he takes over his father’s kingdom—that much authority can change a man. But his father has already tried to kill him more than once, and it’s time to end his reign. Braeden’s armies are ready. His strategy is foolproof. His generals are waiting for the order to attack. It’s only in the final seconds before the battle begins that he realizes he missed one crucial detail—the traitor.
Kara raced down a dark hallway, Braeden a foot or two ahead of
her. The walls’ white stones whizzed by in her periphery. Their boots thudded
along the stone floor, their footsteps echoing. Torches flew past, one every
dozen feet or so, the fires blurring as she ran and leaving orange streaks on
her vision. Open windows filled the spaces between sconces, dark portals to the
night outside. Flick clung to her shoulder, tail wrapped around the back of her
neck for balance. His fur itched her throat, but she pressed onward.
Kara let out a slow breath. For a training
exercise, this was all too real.
A fireball blew past an open window a few feet
behind them, crashing into the stones. A tremor shook the floor. Black pebbles
splintered off and flew past her head, their ends orange. She flinched, but
pressed forward. The Ayavelian fort through which they ran took the brunt of
the assault, its stone core surviving the fire from the Kirelms above. Through
the open windows, glimpses of the chaos outside blipped in and out of view:
fire raging along the wooden fences; a dozen more fireballs raining from the
sky, their tails red streaks in the black night. A chorus of battle cries and
clanging swords rang from the ground. A shrill scream rang above the uproar.
Kara’s
white vest crinkled as she ran, rubbing her skin as her arms pumped back and
forth. If someone tore it off, she would be out of the game—effectively “dead.”
She eyed Braeden’s vest—red to signify him as a royal. If his was torn off, he
would be just as “dead” and would have to sit out—and her team would lose the
game. While all red vests needed protection, Braeden carried the burden of
killing Carden. The war ended when they killed his father, but if both Stelian
royals died in this final battle, it would mean the genocide of the Stelian
race. In fact, only the Lossian race had a surviving Heir. If any other Blood
participating in the war died, their people would die with them.
No pressure.
S. M. Boyce is a lifelong writer with a knack for finding adventure and magic.
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