Welcome to Ashendown: Book I of the Emmerian Chronicles
Eleanor T. Leighton
Fifteen year-old Emmerian Storlock is on the verge of choosing his future career path when disaster strikes his hometown. Magic, that mysterious force that intertwines subtly with almost every part of life in the country of Mylloria, has been acting strangely lately. Rising magic levels throughout his country have caused dangerously large spontaneous magical outbreaks called Events to pop up unexpectedly all over the place. The luckless Emmerian is caught in the wrong place at the right time when an Event manifests itself in the form of a very hungry hundred-foot tall mud demon. In order to save his life, Emmerian pulls out all the stops… and lives! Surviving a disaster like that would usually be a great thing, but unfortunately there were witnesses to his heroic act. Now everyone in his hometown (including his tyrannical mother) is convinced that he’s about to become a great adventurer! …Except that he doesn’t want to be one. He starts plotting…
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