The Stonebound Heir (The Cursed Cycles, #1)
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An epic journey of the heart.
Fourteen-year-old Sid Sol knows nothing about his origins but believes himself destined for better things than living in an isolated cabin with a giant and a girl whose strange appearance causes the locals to shun them. His fellow orphan, sixteen-year-old Lingli Tabaan, only wants a home where she will be safe from those who are convinced she's from the otherworld.
In this coming-of-age story of secret origins, friendship, and betrayal, the arrival of a mysterious woman provides Sid with the chance to claim a more glorious future, but his departure doesn't go smoothly, and star-cursed Lingli is forced to undertake a journey she never wanted after their guardian is brutally murdered.
Sid and Lingli meet again in Saatkulom where they serve a mercurial maharani who will risk the realm to secure a new alliance while fighting her own inner demons. One teenager's fortunes rise while the other's fall. Will their loyalty to one another survive?
Approx. 550pp.
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L.A. Barnitz has bachelors' degrees in journalism and humanities from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a master's degree in international affairs from American University in Washington, DC. After spending many good years working in communications, raising her children, and exploring the world, she has returned to her lifelong passion of writing fiction and tending living things?splitting her time between Maryland, Missouri and India. She founded Little Hawk Books LLC to help other independent writers bring their stories to readers. The Stonebound Heir is her first published novel.
What's next?
In The Cursed Cycles Book 2, Lingli pays a price for home and hearth, and the subjects of Saatkulom fight for their survival as growing planetary disturbances unravel alliances and open the gates to the otherworld. Keep up with L.A. Barnitz's books and stories and sign up for her occasional newsletter at laurabarnitz.com.
