Introducing Shadow Blight by Tina Griffith

Tina Griffith, was born at Sheppard AFB in 1988, and was raised in a military family. Her father has taken her as far as Japan during his time in the Air Force.

Tina has an extensive background in martial arts, a fascination with how people interact with one another regardless of race or background, and a love for the medieval time period.


Rain Publishing will be releasing "Shadow Blight" in January 2008.


Synopsis

Long ago, Dio raised up eight warriors to banish the Shadow. Since then, the story of his Chosen has passed into legend, the prophecy of the Shadow’s return all but forgotten. But now the old weapons have chosen wielders once again. Eight men and women have been called to destroy their age-old enemy. There is one big problem: Dio’s Chosen are at war.

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In a land where deception, betrayal, and vengeance run rampant, nothing is as it seems. Once, they were of the same blood. Descended from the eight Chosen who waged war against the Shadow, the Empire and its forest neighbors should have known peace. The unfortunate deaths of three princes changed all that.

Firgo and Fiona Harbinger have lost their village in an Imperial raid. Only four villages escaped the Empire’s culling. Hidden deep in the Malu Forest, the fear that they will be discovered constantly skulking in the background, the remaining villagers refuse to die quietly. It falls on the twins’ shoulders to bring the fight to the Imperials.

Lauranna, the only remaining child of the Imperial family, is now faced with a decision no daughter should ever have to make. Her husband has become an Imperial target in this war. With her parents as the only ones who could have ordered his death, and the commoners looking to her for help, Lauranna’s loyalties will be tested like never before.

No one knows of Shorei’s distant past. Raised by the Ancients since his early teens, he knows of the legend of the Shadow and its prophesied return intimately. He has cast his lot in with the villagers after the massacre. But as the Eight weapons of old reawaken and it becomes clear that the two sides are only interested in using Dio’s power to destroy each other, Shorei becomes increasingly uneasy.

Tragedy looms on the horizon. And the Shadow draws ever closer.