an adult Fantasy by PAUL E. HAYES

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Elizabeth comes from nothing. She has nothing to lose and everything to gain. When opportunity bursts into her ramshackle home, she sets one foot forward into a world of magic where women are forbidden to tread.

She bides her time, plays by the rules, and hopes to prove herself and earn the rights given freely to boys and men. When a star falls from the sky, she seizes the moment to change her life.

Now, Elizabeth must protect her vision for a new, compassionate magic from those who would wield it to annihilate, but how can she do that without using the destructive runes she has been taught?

If she waits to be invited into places of privilege, she will wait forever, while an empire swallows her homeland.