Emergence (The Gatekeeper, #0)
Description
A three-year-old girl walks out of a cornfield into a tiny farming village...
There is no clue to how she got there, and she speaks a language that baffles even the village mages. Is she a witch? The result of a wizard's errant spell? By the time she starts school she is already an outcast, and her temper doesn't help her make friends. The other children bully her relentlessly.
When she buys a sword, a local swordmaster recognises her natural talent and offers to train her in an elite method. He soon sees in her more than just talent: she has a gift. She is driven to master the techniques and be the best swordfighter she can be, to stand up to her tormentors. Ultimately, she is determined to leave the village to find out who put her there.
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Person
Krista started out as a singer, took up acting, studied Theatre at UVic, then eventually added writing to her creative endeavours. She grew up in the Port Coquitlam vortex, and so was naturally pulled back there after her time away.
As a singer she has spanned several styles, having sung classical music for several years, then switched out and was part of jazz, rock and R&B bands for most of her career. She has been the vocalist for FAT Jazz for 427 years, and is half of a jazz duo called The Itty Bitty Big Band.
She writes primarily Fantasy, but has dabbled in other genres, in both short and long fiction. Her Gatekeeper series is more traditional fantasy, while Griffin and the Spurious Correlations, inspired largely by her rock band era, is Contemporary Humour Fantasy Romance.
Most recently she combined all her artistic exploits and discovered audiobook narration, with a little help from her friends, and then decided to start the podcast, [Totally Fantastic Title], which then branched into the production of her own audiobooks.
