The Befallen

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Fantasy Finalist Award for 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sloane sheltered yet persistent believes she's capable and longs for everyone to see past her disabled</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>leg. Selling at Market Day unaccompanied is the chance to prove herself. But when she returns home to</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>her village she's shattered to discover the Befallen has killed everyone. Having nothing but her faith in</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>the goddesses of the moon she's forced to test her strength in the outside world. Sloane realizes the</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>kingdom is dangerous even without the Befallen: full of thieves thugs and worse heretics.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sloane is further shocked no one seems to know the entire legend which promises a hero will defeat the</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Befallen. When she learns an order of knights have vowed to fulfill the legend she's determined to help</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>them as she alone was taught that a weapon will be gifted from the seldom-seen goddess of the Azure</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Moon.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sir Tolvar a banished famed knight wrestling with the demons of his past is skeptical. He's reluctant to</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>let Sloane join their cause until she convinces him that faith carries its own power.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As the two uncover the mysteries surrounding the Befallen-growing steadily stronger-an impossible</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>task is thrust upon Sloane that makes her question everything...</span></p>