The Kindling Flame: An Azzan Chronicles Novella
Edward Belly
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(SeeBellyWrite, July 3, 2016)
In the wake of the Allentian chapter's fall, the Fanterran chapter of the Order of Raziel stands at full alert, preparing to go to war. A new under-cleric in the order, Alise has more immediate problems to deal with. If she's not struggling with her role as a healer's assistant in an organization where such a position is secondary at best, she's navigating the touchy politics of the order itself. Things aren't made any easier by a best friend who only seems interested in one thing: the number of men she can seduce into her bed chamber. And then Rafe turns up alive, and her entire world gets turned on its head.Rafe tries to make the most of his ill-fated role as a knight of the order, but when he sees Alise sitting across the Common Hall on his first day back in the keep in almost a year, the life he'd been forced to leave behind comes crashing back. Now all he can think of is his forgotten past and this awakening of forbidden passion. When Alise uncovers the secret that destroyed the Allentian order, she finds herself forced to choose between past allegiances and the source of her new desire. Can she survive the order's ire? Should she tell Rafe the truth and expose him to the same danger or let him continue his servitude in ignorance? The time to act is now, and her choice may well change the fate of the world.