The Blacksmith's Boy

<p class=ql-align-center><em>You told Isabella you would stand with her until the end. Bok pushed up his sleeves.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(85 85 85 1)>Bok Omat thought his place in the Kingdom of Imarina was settled. The 19-year-old served as his rural community's healer and helped in his family's blacksmith's shop. It was an unremarkable life in Imarina's peasant class but as long as his parents sister and young nephew were safe a fine one under the protection of the Inishari royal family.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(85 85 85 1)>But when an ancient spell threatens Bok's family and the safety of the entire kingdom he answers an unlikely summons from Princess Isabella to join her in protecting all they cherish. Despite their vastly different pasts Bok and Isabella become close friends as they race to counter this deadly incantation and the mysterious mastermind behind it.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(85 85 85 1)>Bok learns secrets that force him to reconsider all he has ever known about the world and his place in it. But will this knowledge come at the price of his life Imarina's freedom or even his burgeoning friendship with Isabella? </span></p><p></p>