Dark fantasy

Blooded Wand

by Eric Michael Collins

The Wand chose a kitchen maid.

In the shadowed halls of Castle Lightmoore, the ancient Wand chooses its bearer once every hundred years. This time, it chose wrong — or did it? Mara has spent ten years as a kitchen maid: head down, hands raw, invisible. On New Year’s Eve the Wand flies across the selection chamber and binds itself to her, a servant with no noble blood and no training. The Lightmoore family is furious. A maid. A bastard. The chosen savior of their line. Some want her dead. One ambitious cousin will stop at nothing to take what he believes is his. Thrust into dangerous magic, bloodline politics, and war with the Dark Elves, Mara must learn to wield a sentient artifact that speaks in feelings, not words. Power has a price. Survival may mean becoming everything she swore she never wanted to be.

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