Night's Edge is Book One in my exciting New Kingdoms  fantasy series.

Atrius and Raven are two young adults who have both lost their homes and families amid violent confrontations. Atrius Quintin, eighteen, and on the verge of completing his schooling to become a guardian of Fraxin Forest, is framed for the murder of his father, the Baron. Atrius escapes his captors and flees into the depths of the woods he knows so well. Wounded during the chase, the young fugitive plummets forty feet into the Dravus River, his body carried away by the current. 

Raven Wind craves recognition as a warrior and believes that, at seventeen, she is the equal of any young fighter in the village. Her people's traditions forbid females from taking part in the annual blooding rituals with the young braves. Defying the wishes of her father the chief, Raven secretly completes the Moon Dance, but is discovered and banished from her tribe. Grievously wounded, Raven faces certain death as she stumbles westward into the desert toward the Haunted Mountains.

Night's Edge begins the journeys of Atrius and Raven as each seeks to find a way home. Readers are introduced to Xanthorpe, an enigmatic wizard, who brings the two exiles together and sends them on quite a different odyssey than either expected. Charged with finding the mythical Night's Edge, the pair face an impossible task: no one has seen the mysterious artifact in more than one thousand years!

Night's Edge Updates:
 

July 14, 2026: It has been a long time since I've posted any updates for Night's Edge! This novel is still "in progress" with the most recent activity being recovery of disparate scenes and chapters from various hard drives and cloud storage platforms. Those words—nearly 72,000!—have been safely secured in a Scrivener project binder.

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Although it has been many years since Night's Edge was begun, I believe it and it's companion books in the series will still see the light of day! That may be sooner, rather than later, unless my new series somehow jumps the queue. In any case, all is not lost!

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