A Glimmer on the Blade

Terastai: an empire built on the wreckage of our world. Its people thrive on old magic, new gods, and leftover technology. Guns and engines are outlawed for they destroyed the world prior. Justice is delivered with the blade of a sword. Exiled and betrayed by the prince she loved, Anoni spent years instead training as a warrior in the elite Oruno Warcollege. Then word reached her: the men who exiled her plan to kill the prince and take the Terastaian Empire for themselves. The choice was hers. Let him die and see her homeland descend into chaos. Or return and face her unfinished business. Disguised as a man, and armed with magic relics, Anoni makes her choice and infiltrates the prince's personal bodyguards.Prince Coronado spent his days drinking and writing music, waiting for the day he could take his father's throne. To be crowned, he must complete a ceremonial ordeal. For the first time, he'll be forced to live without his name, his money, even...his face. For his coronation to be legal, the prince's new bodyguards must journey through a haunted wilderness to bring back an offering to the Goddess. If the ordeal or the quest fail, the conspirators can claim the prince has lost his divine right to rule. Their fight for the fate of an empire begins now in A GLIMMER ON THE BLADE, the debut novel by Rachel E. Baddorf. From Pro Se Productions.