The Seeker
Nicole Wilkinson
Author Bio
Nicole Wilkinson has been an active writer for the better part of ten years. Born and raised by parents who embraced the arts no matter the style, she has always been fascinated by imaginary worlds and the characters who inhabit them. She currently lives in North Carolina where she’s working on at least three novels at once and having the best time of her life doing so.
Description
It was marked as the end of an era and the beginning of a new age. It was a sign that Normaud had advanced from its history of barbarism and deceit. The Seeker abandoned her sword and shield, ending a line that had served the monarchy for centuries.
Now, decades later, someone has taken the heirs of Normaud, spiriting them away in the dead of night. Only the Seeker can find them, emerging from her self-imposed retirement to take up the blade once more.
Normaud’s enemies are many, and time is against her, but the Seeker will do what she must to see the heirs restored to their rightful place, even if it means surrendering her own life.
Book excerpt
They were taken from their rooms in the dead of night, after the sky clouded over from the threat of a coming storm and the moon hid behind a darkened haze. It was cold, late winter, a time when breaths puffed out in icy billows and guards hovered close to the fires, believing that no one would dare threaten the safety of the royal family on such a night.
But they were wrong and it was the kingdom that paid the price. Without a sound and without any warning, the two young heirs to the throne were taken. Queen Naveah’s son and daughter, already without their father, were now in the hands of some unknown entity.
All of Normaud was up in arms, even as it mourned the loss.
The knights, the royal guard, and the best-trained hunters could find no trace of the missing children. Their beds were rumpled, the windows closed and locked tight, and their doors were still barred. It was as though they had vanished, taken by ghosts or spirits or possibly even the Faerae of the forest, far to the North.
The bells tolled daily, the priests prayed to gods no longer trusted, and the people hoped beyond hoping that someone would save them.
Weeks passed, and still, the children were missing. Stricken by sorrow, the queen locked herself in her bedroom, refusing to see or speak to anyone. She took no food or visitors, alone in her grief.
That’s why it was up to the Seeker to find them, the precious future of the kingdom, and those who had taken the children from their mother would pay for their transgression. She had vowed it. Without the siblings, the country would degenerate into war as the differing families fought over who would inherit the throne. And perhaps that was the motivation behind their disappearance, perhaps not.
The Seeker didn’t know and didn’t care why Adela and her younger brother Lukas had been taken. It didn’t matter to her. She only cared that she would find the perpetrators, punish them, and return the little ones to their proper home. The mere thought of children being used as pawns in a political game burned through her veins, igniting a fury once forced into dormancy.
She would find them.
Author Website
http://www.nicolewilkinsonwrites.com
