Blood bubbled up between my fingers, warm and thick. Just the apprentices, clustered around the table. They were all in the main hall, tending the others.

The wooden table beneath my aged patient creaked and complained at the added weight as the room echoed with the sound of our leather shoes slapping against the stone floor and my patient’s frantic panting.Ī quick glance around the large kitchen told me that there were no other healers in sight. The apprentices gathered around the table grabbed tight to his arms and legs, all of them wide-eyed and pale as they tried to keep him from moving. Biting my lip, I pressed harder still, desperate to stop the bleeding. “Goddess, no.” I dropped the knife, pressed my hands against his stomach, into the blood, and threw my full weight onto the wound. I pulled the shard out just as his wound began spurting blood. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Xylara knows must trade the life she has always known for the well-being of her people, and so she becomes. She never expects that these deeds, done in good faith, would lead to the handsome and mysterious Firelander Warlord demanding her in exchange for a cease-fire. She learns their language and their customs and tries to make them as comfortable as possible, despite their prisoner-of-war status. She can't usurp her brother or negotiate a peace-but she can heal the brave ones injured in battle.īut not only her countrymen are wounded, and Xylara's conscience won't let Firelander warriors die when she can do something to save them. With her father dead and her incompetent half-brother on the throne, the kingdom is in danger of falling to the warring Firelanders.īefore she was old enough for a marriage-of-alliance, Xylara was trained as a healer. Xylara is the Daughter of the Warrior King, Xyron. SHE MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN HER PEOPLE AND HER FREEDOM.

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