The Lion and the Sparrow

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(75 79 88 1)>A constable and a physician-each hiding who they truly are-must join forces to save their village from a ruthless brother-sister pair of rogue mages and their army of beasts.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(75 79 88 1)>The village of Stonefall lies on the western frontier of the Arkadian Dominion not far from the Poisoned Lands. There Malcolm Jabari lives under the false surname Kent serving quietly as the town's constable. But Malcolm was once a Lionheart Knight-the lone survivor when his order was betrayed and slaughtered by the Spider Priests. His first love died to save him. Now with the Spider Cult in favor with the Dominus exposure would mean certain death.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(75 79 88 1)>Two years ago Tristan Atwater returned home to serve as Stonefall's physician. Once conscripted as a Dominion mage he was crippled and stripped of his power by the very man who claimed to love him. Rebuilding a quiet life he keeps secret the truth that some of his magic has returned-because discovery would cost him his freedom.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(75 79 88 1)>When rogue mages from Tristan's past Andromeda and Cassius Blackthorn descend on Stonefall with an army of enthralled beasts and a monstrous demand Malcolm and Tristan become the village's first-and only-line of defense. To protect their people they must risk revealing their deepest secrets first to each other and then to the world. As their bond deepens the stakes rise. Have they found love only to lose everything-or can they defy fate itself to save the ones they love?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(75 79 88 1)>The Lion and the Sparrow is the newest Romantic Fantasy novel from Chad Grayson.</span></p><p></p>