CLARITY Snippet

My current project is CLARITY: Book Three of the Arbiter Codex. Here’s a little snippet from Chapter 2. Previous books have used D’Arden Tal and Elisa Shannari as point-of-view characters–book three will feature a new POV.

“[He] still held out some hope that he might stumble across a useful book, secreted away in some dusty corner, but it had slowly transformed from a burning beacon of passion and motivation into a dwindling candle flame of cynicism and disdain. With each passing day it dripped more metaphorical wax into a sad and lonely pool at its base, and soon would snuff out entirely.”