Beth Ball

Savior. Sacrifice. Survivor. Rowan knows what she has to do: Harness her elemental magic, revive a lost titan, and restore the ebbing might of her forest home. But to increase her power, she must ally herself with long-standing enemies, those responsible for her father's death and the weakening of the woods. And she's not the only one to face the scant choices of a world at war. Across the Circle Sea, Marcon prepares for his first deployment as a soldier in the Army of Light, led by the famed Tali Silversword, one of the last remaining elemental champions. They return to Sanctuary, the battleground that claimed his parents' lives years before. Alongside Rowan and Marcon, the threads of fate wrap themselves around a dwarf desperate for redemption, an elf searching for his sister, and a nameless spirit witch fighting to survive. Explore a world of fading elemental magic, secret heroes, and brimming war in this enthralling first-in-series dark fantasy epic with themes of destiny, found family, and inner power.

Savior. Sacrifice. Survivor. Rowan knows what she has to do: Harness her elemental magic, revive a lost titan, and restore the ebbing might of her forest home. But to increase her power, she must ally herself with long-standing enemies, those responsible for her father's death and the weakening of the woods. And she's not the only one to face the scant choices of a world at war. Across the Circle Sea, Marcon prepares for his first deployment as a soldier in the Army of Light, led by the famed Tali Silversword, one of the last remaining elemental champions. They return to Sanctuary, the battleground that claimed his parents' lives years before. Alongside Rowan and Marcon, the threads of fate wrap themselves around a dwarf desperate for redemption, an elf searching for his sister, and a nameless spirit witch fighting to survive. Explore a world of fading elemental magic, secret heroes, and brimming war in this enthralling first-in-series dark fantasy epic with themes of destiny, found family, and inner power.

With the castle walls bearing down on her and a forced marriage fast-approaching, Iellieth Amastacia is out of escape routes... Until her elven father's amulet whisks her off to a frozen mountainside and the ancient warrior waiting to be awakened within. Fate binds Iellieth and Marcon Colabra together, just as a magical curse binds Marcon to her amulet. Being trapped together isn't enough, as the forgotten warrior isn't the only dormant force awakening to this new world. A fallen guardian hunts Iellieth-he knows she's the only one who can save Azuria from his dark mistress's plots, and he doesn't mean to be thwarted again. Standing between Iellieth and the powerful mage, a young saudad woman fends off the press of werewolves teeming within the Caldaran forests. Persephonie Arelle and her people await the chosen one, promised long ago. Across the Infinite Ocean, the bard-turned-pirate Teodric Adhemar faces a choice-submit to the atrocities ordered by his cruel admiral or surrender his mother's safety. The decision itself isn't difficult. It's living with the nightmares afterward. In the northern wilds, a druid conclave serves as one of the last bastions of resistance against the aggressive press of the empire of Andel-ce Hevra. What they don't know is that the city has already made its fatal move against them. An attack is coming, and the magic of Genevieve Vendanges is unequal to the task of protecting her home. Briseras Ravisthinia is without a home to protect, on the run from the empire and torn between two impossible quests-find the missing druid Fhaona or return to her cursed homeland and exact her revenge upon those who bound her into their service. A reluctant pirate, an unpromising druid, a renegade huntress, and a magically inclined traveler stand between the forces of darkness that would destroy their world. Uniting them, a runaway noblewoman faces her destiny-she and she alone can save Azuria. If she fails herself, she fails them all.

"All magic is a choice." Ancient curses, hidden artifacts, and forbidden magic pull against the tides of destiny in the fourth installment of the Age of Azuria high fantasy series. With so much at stake, found families and star-crossed lovers face the ultimate test. Do our heroes have what it takes to seize hold of the threads of fate, choose one another, and survive the trials before them? Impossible choices await Iellieth within an ancient elven forest, where the stakes for her friends and her world grow ever more dire. But soon enough, she will find that the ancients hid more than the final piece of the planar seal within the woods. The implications of their long-buried secrets may alter not only her fate, but Azuria's as well. For Teodric, the threat against his father presses ever more strongly upon his mind. He knows what torments the pirate queen Syleste is capable of inflicting. Genevieve, too, prepares to fulfill the next stage of her quest to aid the daimon of the Brightlands. A great many dangers and multiple realms stand between her and the pack.Further north, Persephonie hides an injured Rennear and Jez within a strange muster, breaking the saudad's long-standing rule that no one besides themselves should travel the threads of fate. In another plane altogether, Briseras continues her search for her quarry, finding instead a wounded nobleman wandering in the woods. But is he bait sent from the vampire to lure her into a trap or is he part of her destiny in Steymhorod, a thread woven long ago?Over all of this, Yvayne plots her next move, ready, finally, to take her place upon the world stage as the leader of the lorekeeper rebels. But the fae may be too late-strange monsters teem within the forests of the Elven Realms and creatures of shadow invade the Brightlands. Her enemies have not been dormant while waiting for the chosen one to reappear. When Lucien spies his chance, he takes it-hoping for the ruin of all. In the face of impossible choices, who will ascend to the heights of their destiny? And who, in failing to rise, will condemn themselves and their loved ones to a darkness unimaginable?

"All magic is a choice." Ancient curses, hidden artifacts, and forbidden magic pull against the tides of destiny in the fourth installment of the Age of Azuria high fantasy series. With so much at stake, found families and star-crossed lovers face the ultimate test. Do our heroes have what it takes to seize hold of the threads of fate, choose one another, and survive the trials before them? Impossible choices await Iellieth within an ancient elven forest, where the stakes for her friends and her world grow ever more dire. But soon enough, she will find that the ancients hid more than the final piece of the planar seal within the woods. The implications of their long-buried secrets may alter not only her fate, but Azuria's as well. For Teodric, the threat against his father presses ever more strongly upon his mind. He knows what torments the pirate queen Syleste is capable of inflicting. Genevieve, too, prepares to fulfill the next stage of her quest to aid the daimon of the Brightlands. A great many dangers and multiple realms stand between her and the pack.Further north, Persephonie hides an injured Rennear and Jez within a strange muster, breaking the saudad's long-standing rule that no one besides themselves should travel the threads of fate. In another plane altogether, Briseras continues her search for her quarry, finding instead a wounded nobleman wandering in the woods. But is he bait sent from the vampire to lure her into a trap or is he part of her destiny in Steymhorod, a thread woven long ago?Over all of this, Yvayne plots her next move, ready, finally, to take her place upon the world stage as the leader of the lorekeeper rebels. But the fae may be too late-strange monsters teem within the forests of the Elven Realms and creatures of shadow invade the Brightlands. Her enemies have not been dormant while waiting for the chosen one to reappear. When Lucien spies his chance, he takes it-hoping for the ruin of all. In the face of impossible choices, who will ascend to the heights of their destiny? And who, in failing to rise, will condemn themselves and their loved ones to a darkness unimaginable?

A hidden dragon. A banished queen. And a druid reborn.Desdemona Orbaskier will do anything to reclaim her rightful place upon the throne, even brave the wilds to hunt down and kill the last dragon haunting Draykemire. As fate would have it, he's been waiting for her. Yvayne's wait is over as the signs foretell that the long-awaited druidic heir will soon be reborn. She knows all too well the dangers that will seek to destroy this fragile new life and must find and destroy them before they can strike.Ridel is the first in this line of attack, given the sacred, deceptively straightforward task of ridding Azuria of this dangerously powerful lineage forever, the only being who can truly thwart her master's plans. Lucien's instructions couldn't be clearer-the child's life or her own. And latest upon the threads of fate, a young nobleman stands watch over his dearest friend, trying to protect her from the cruel matches her stepfather foists upon her path. The situation grows desperate-exactly like his own hopes for intertwining his fate with hers. Courtly intrigue meets sword & sorcery in this trio of standalone epic fantasy novellas set across the worlds of Azuria and Eldura: Aurora, Stormborn, and Song of Parting.

Long ago, a golden dragon made her last stand against legions of Sanctuary's soldiers before her body yielded to their might. In the moments before her passing, she bound the rulers' destinies to that of the dragons and breathed out a curse-every last heir of the ruling Orbaskier line would suffer from ill-fortune. The Orbaskiers have struggled ever since, their numbers dwindling as they strive to keep their promise to slay every dragon that sets scale or claw upon their land. There are but two left with the will and lineage to rule: Tavian, who sits upon the throne, and a rival, Desdemona Orbaskier, the would-be warrior queen, who makes the wilds of Sanctuary her home.The curse of ill-fate mars Desdemona's every choice-it clings to her as it did her ancestors.But cursed or no, the throne belongs to Desdemona. All she must do to seize what is hers is slay the last dragon of Sanctuary. Such a victory would propel her into her proper place as the greatest queen the land has ever known. Yet when she enters the dragon's lair, she finds someone whose destiny will forever alter her own. Stormborn is a standalone novella set in the high fantasy world of Eldura by Beth Ball.

Long ago, a golden dragon made her last stand against legions of Sanctuary's soldiers before her body yielded to their might. In the moments before her passing, she bound the rulers' destinies to that of the dragons and breathed out a curse-every last heir of the ruling Orbaskier line would suffer from ill-fortune. The Orbaskiers have struggled ever since, their numbers dwindling as they strive to keep their promise to slay every dragon that sets scale or claw upon their land. There are but two left with the will and lineage to rule: Tavian, who sits upon the throne, and a rival, Desdemona Orbaskier, the would-be warrior queen, who makes the wilds of Sanctuary her home.The curse of ill-fate mars Desdemona's every choice-it clings to her as it did her ancestors.But cursed or no, the throne belongs to Desdemona. All she must do to seize what is hers is slay the last dragon of Sanctuary. Such a victory would propel her into her proper place as the greatest queen the land has ever known. Yet when she enters the dragon's lair, she finds someone whose destiny will forever alter her own. Stormborn is a standalone novella set in the high fantasy world of Eldura by Beth Ball.

Cassandra, the goddess of fate, has often gifted her Chosen with prophetic visions, tellings of what is, was, and could yet be. Each Chosen must chart their own course through these tales, slowly coming to understand the narrative behind their Sight, what is for them to interpret and what is merely for them to See. The goddess of fate keeps her own counsel. She alone can tell why some, by their innate nature, change the weave of fate, while others simply follow the course of their own thread. But those of us who chart signs such as these have found a single strand running through the disparate patterns of the fate-weave-above all others, Cassandra chooses storytellers. It is they she favors with the ability to See. And among the saudad, people of story and legend, when one of their own takes the threads of fate into their hands, there is no telling what new narrative they may weave. Inside these pages, those who seek Sight will find story, and those who seek story, Sight. This is the way it ever has been and ever will be. Persephonie Arelle is not yet a Chosen of Cassandra, and the story of her becoming so may not ever come to be. However, I think you will agree with me in this-her story is much more than that of one who can See.

Cassandra, the goddess of fate, has often gifted her Chosen with prophetic visions, tellings of what is, was, and could yet be. Each Chosen must chart their own course through these tales, slowly coming to understand the narrative behind their Sight, what is for them to interpret and what is merely for them to See. The goddess of fate keeps her own counsel. She alone can tell why some, by their innate nature, change the weave of fate, while others simply follow the course of their own thread. But those of us who chart signs such as these have found a single strand running through the disparate patterns of the fate-weave-above all others, Cassandra chooses storytellers. It is they she favors with the ability to See. And among the saudad, people of story and legend, when one of their own takes the threads of fate into their hands, there is no telling what new narrative they may weave. Inside these pages, those who seek Sight will find story, and those who seek story, Sight. This is the way it ever has been and ever will be. Persephonie Arelle is not yet a Chosen of Cassandra, and the story of her becoming so may not ever come to be. However, I think you will agree with me in this-her story is much more than that of one who can See.

Among the many truths they hold close to heart, story-weavers know: Across all eras, Love and Loss rest on either side of the turning wheel of fate. Azurian legends tell such a story, of love found and lost in the early days of the worlds. Katarina Starsend, a story-hunter and scholar, dedicates her life to tracking down these tales and finding their new iterations in the world. She's in luck. A legendary fae has been reborn-and her incarnation is only a day's ride away. Within the walls of Io Keep, a storm gathers as the callous Duke Amastacia sets his plans in motion. Soon enough, he'll be rid of his stepdaughter, Iellieth Amastacia. Seeing what lies ahead, Teodric Adhemar faces a choice-does he warn Iellieth or allow her to hold tight her illusion of freedom? And can Iellieth out-plot the duke?Find out in this prequel novella perfect for current fans and new readers of the Age of Azuria high fantasy series