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Ruby & Rose
Tasha and Sasha Werth are the sixteen year old twin daughters of a Lersnician fisherman. Red haired and beautiful, the girls grew up amongst the simple fisherfolk of the coastal village of Mellicent. On their sixteenth birthday, Tasha undergoes the Change – becoming a Choice of the Power. Sasha doesn't. The Chosen of the Power, Melise – who arrives in Mellicent to put the Question of Choice to Tasha – is horrified to find that Sasha also courses with the Power, even though she hasn't Changed. Melise is certain that the Werth twins are the Ruby and the Rose returned.
Every Chosen knows the story of the Ruby Rose and the rogue sorceress Merewin. The Ruby Rose was a powerful talisman that had existed for
millennia. The Rose was the embodiment of good – soft, beautiful and flexible. The Ruby, glittering in the very centre of the Rose's velvet petals, demonstrated the hard side of the talisman – blood red, hard faceted and unyielding. When wielded together the Ruby and the Rose the evil and the good, the hard and the soft, provided a balanced result. Each complemented the other.
Four hundred and sixty seven years ago Merewin, a rogue sorceress of immense power and evil purpose, had managed to steal the talisman from Kaleidoscope – the magical city purpose-built by the Chosen of the Power. Merewin performed foul and forbidden rituals to suborn the Rose, subjugating its purpose to those of the Ruby. For three hundred and fifty years she had wreaked havoc on the world with the Ruby Rose. Those who opposed Merewin suffered, and it was the shame of Kaleidoscope that the
Colour Guilds could seem to do nothing to stop her.
The Chosen Practitioners of the Colours were eventually able to vanquish the witch. Unfortunately they were too slow to bind her and she managed to performed a ritual to absorb the Ruby Rose into her own being, melding it to her soul and making it inseparable from herself. At her death the
Ruby Rose journeyed with her into Afterland.
The laws of the circle demand that souls be cycled back into the living world, to the Nowland. There are no exceptions, even for those as evil as Merewin, for the world must have a balance of good and evil and evil
must have a chance to redeem itself in a new life. Therefore a time would come when Merewin's soul would have to be sent back to Nowland. A soul melded with the most powerful talisman of all time could not be allowed
to come whole back into life.
Having tried and failed to separate Merewin's soul from the Ruby Rose, the Black Practitioners of the Colour devised a ritual to reach into the Afterland and split the soul of Merewin into two halves, at the same
time separating the components of the Ruby Rose. The witch's soul was sundered, the Ruby went with one half and the Rose with the other.
Now, the two halves of Merewin's soul – and with them the Ruby and the Rose – have returned to Nowland in the bodies of Tasha and Sasha Werth. Merewin has a plan to reunite the two halves of her soul (and, consequently, the Ruby and the Rose) in one body. For that to happen, one of the Werth twins must die. The Rubinicon is the story of Sasha and Tasha Werth's struggle to foil Merewin's plans.
Every Chosen knows the story of the Ruby Rose and the rogue sorceress Merewin. The Ruby Rose was a powerful talisman that had existed for
millennia. The Rose was the embodiment of good – soft, beautiful and flexible. The Ruby, glittering in the very centre of the Rose's velvet petals, demonstrated the hard side of the talisman – blood red, hard faceted and unyielding. When wielded together the Ruby and the Rose the evil and the good, the hard and the soft, provided a balanced result. Each complemented the other.
Four hundred and sixty seven years ago Merewin, a rogue sorceress of immense power and evil purpose, had managed to steal the talisman from Kaleidoscope – the magical city purpose-built by the Chosen of the Power. Merewin performed foul and forbidden rituals to suborn the Rose, subjugating its purpose to those of the Ruby. For three hundred and fifty years she had wreaked havoc on the world with the Ruby Rose. Those who opposed Merewin suffered, and it was the shame of Kaleidoscope that the
Colour Guilds could seem to do nothing to stop her.
The Chosen Practitioners of the Colours were eventually able to vanquish the witch. Unfortunately they were too slow to bind her and she managed to performed a ritual to absorb the Ruby Rose into her own being, melding it to her soul and making it inseparable from herself. At her death the
Ruby Rose journeyed with her into Afterland.
The laws of the circle demand that souls be cycled back into the living world, to the Nowland. There are no exceptions, even for those as evil as Merewin, for the world must have a balance of good and evil and evil
must have a chance to redeem itself in a new life. Therefore a time would come when Merewin's soul would have to be sent back to Nowland. A soul melded with the most powerful talisman of all time could not be allowed
to come whole back into life.
Having tried and failed to separate Merewin's soul from the Ruby Rose, the Black Practitioners of the Colour devised a ritual to reach into the Afterland and split the soul of Merewin into two halves, at the same
time separating the components of the Ruby Rose. The witch's soul was sundered, the Ruby went with one half and the Rose with the other.
Now, the two halves of Merewin's soul – and with them the Ruby and the Rose – have returned to Nowland in the bodies of Tasha and Sasha Werth. Merewin has a plan to reunite the two halves of her soul (and, consequently, the Ruby and the Rose) in one body. For that to happen, one of the Werth twins must die. The Rubinicon is the story of Sasha and Tasha Werth's struggle to foil Merewin's plans.
264 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 28, 2014
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March 7, 2019
There’s a lot to love about this book.
I thoroughly enjoyed the characters, the weaving of the plot, and the world creation that’s gone to making the Seven Lands a complete and complex world to inhabit for a while.
I’d love a map of the world, and I hope that this will be included in future books in the series.😀
I do like the play on the evil and good twins which has been included:
“Does that make me evil and good, ?”
“No . What each of you do with the situations you find yourselves in will decide whether you are good or evil.”
I also love the thoughts of one of the characters when it comes to a hearty breakfast:
“but some days a grown man just needed bacon, fatty sausages, eggs, fried potatoes and thick slabs of toasted bread topped with even thicker slabs of butter. Today was one of those days.”
Today is often one of those bacon days for me, and any author who is willing to back me on that is one I’m happy to support! (I wonder if it was her husband who planted that thought??)
I thoroughly enjoyed the characters, the weaving of the plot, and the world creation that’s gone to making the Seven Lands a complete and complex world to inhabit for a while.
I’d love a map of the world, and I hope that this will be included in future books in the series.😀
I do like the play on the evil and good twins which has been included:
“Does that make me evil and good, ?”
“No . What each of you do with the situations you find yourselves in will decide whether you are good or evil.”
I also love the thoughts of one of the characters when it comes to a hearty breakfast:
“but some days a grown man just needed bacon, fatty sausages, eggs, fried potatoes and thick slabs of toasted bread topped with even thicker slabs of butter. Today was one of those days.”
Today is often one of those bacon days for me, and any author who is willing to back me on that is one I’m happy to support! (I wonder if it was her husband who planted that thought??)
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