A Memory of Blood and Magic

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A life is lived one step at a time.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Arin's future was foretold at birth: They would be neither girl nor boy and a witch besides. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When the prejudices of powerful neighbors intrude on the idyll of their isolated Freelander childhood Arin's magic is awakened and their life spirals into violence and tragedy.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Taken captive and sold into household service instead of toil and indignity Arin discovers a new family and a place of safety and healing. But even as they settle into a </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>kind</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> of peace violence finds them again and their power intercedes once more.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Then an unexpected ally sets them on a new path leading Arin to a true place of refuge-and an unsettling understanding: Their magical abilities are rooted in the very pain and trauma that has overturned their world. Can they find a balance in themself between healing and vengeance? Or will the demons of their past bring all that they love to ruin?</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The paths of memory are sown with the seeds of both pain <em>and </em>strength. The future can be shaped by either.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The first book in K.N. Brindle's debut fantasy duology A Memory of Blood and Magic twists the genre of epic fantasy to create a moving portrait of trauma and healing. In this first-person oral history set in a world where magic is powered by pain and trauma readers will come to know the main character and narrator Arin through the worst and best moments of their life.</span></p>