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First Mage Hiding
(Previously published as Crowns Peak #1 - Creeper)
Slavers have come to Crowns Peak.
For Creeper, a street urchin living rough in the slums, that fact is just one more in a long list of everyday realities she has to deal with. But what if there were a better place for her, a place where she might be safe? Safe from the coming winter, from the older littles who bully her, from the king’s guards who want to take her, and perhaps even from the slavers.
Creeper might just have found such a place… within the palace walls, surrounded by the very guards she has been taught to fear. But better in here than out there. Or is it? Secrets swirl within those walls, and old hatreds bubble close to the surface. She'll have to navigate very carefully if she is to remain safe, remain welcome, remain hidden.
Outside the walls, however, the littles from Creeper’s old life are being snatched up one by one…
Slavers have come to Crowns Peak.
For Creeper, a street urchin living rough in the slums, that fact is just one more in a long list of everyday realities she has to deal with. But what if there were a better place for her, a place where she might be safe? Safe from the coming winter, from the older littles who bully her, from the king’s guards who want to take her, and perhaps even from the slavers.
Creeper might just have found such a place… within the palace walls, surrounded by the very guards she has been taught to fear. But better in here than out there. Or is it? Secrets swirl within those walls, and old hatreds bubble close to the surface. She'll have to navigate very carefully if she is to remain safe, remain welcome, remain hidden.
Outside the walls, however, the littles from Creeper’s old life are being snatched up one by one…
261 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 21, 2022
About the author
Barbara Lund
34 books23 followersY'all, I re-released the CROWNS PEAK series with new, pretty covers... If you've bought them once, please don't buy them again (unless you really, REALLY love the new covers)!
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Award-winning speculative fiction author Barbara Lund has seven indie-published novels, dozens of short stories, and has been traditionally published in Daily Science Fiction and L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume 37.
She won the Writers of the Future Golden Pen (2021), along with a First Place, three Silver Honorable Mentions, and two Honorable Mentions.
She is always working on new novels and short stories -
Add a husband, two kids, and a martial arts obsession, and she keeps pretty busy.
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Award-winning speculative fiction author Barbara Lund has seven indie-published novels, dozens of short stories, and has been traditionally published in Daily Science Fiction and L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume 37.
She won the Writers of the Future Golden Pen (2021), along with a First Place, three Silver Honorable Mentions, and two Honorable Mentions.
She is always working on new novels and short stories -
Add a husband, two kids, and a martial arts obsession, and she keeps pretty busy.
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