The Shattered Truce

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>A fragile peace. </em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Shifting power. </em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>A tight-knit settlement - no escape. </em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The settlement of March is a lonely backwater that makes up its own laws and serves out its own justice. For a generation peace has rested on the edge of a sword blade. The sword in question hangs on the wall of the tiny house where Fran lives with his mother. But after Elsa the girl Fran loves is promised to the son of the chief that fragile peace shatters into a million pieces. Falsely accused of injuring his rival Fran's back is against the wall. Fight he must but he needs to learn how to handle the sword ... and fast. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Help with this comes from an unlikely source: Arete the woman who lives in a cave on the mountainside with a wildcat and a dragon as companions. Finding her removes him briefly from the politics raging in March but then he must return to stand alongside his friends as rival factions take up arms. </span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With a setting inspired by ancient Britain this is an atmospheric magic-sprinkled tale of courage in the face of disaster and of battling isolation and finding friendship in unexpected places. </strong></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Wishing Shelf Book Awards</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Finalist </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Listed in LoveReading's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Indie Books We Love</em></p>