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From Winter\'s Ashes
By Patrick Rochefort and Keith Aksland
A Detective with nothing left to lose, against a Necromancer with the world to gain.
In a world where everyone wields magic, you need a detective as quick with a spell as she is with her wits.
A necromancer forced Detective Heather Blackthorne once hunted necromantic cults in the service of the Church. But one villain slipped her grasp, and to watch as he butchered her husband and son paid son, and then stole their bones. She thought it was the ultimate price.
Her worst moment of her life. She was wrong.
It’s a year later, with her life shattered and her career shattered, mysterious forces conspire in ruins, her last shot at redemption has gone terribly wrong. Heather is sent in disgrace to plant her in the high North. North by the Church she serves. And what peace is to be found in that quiet arctic outpost is all too quickly shattered, broken, as her past comes hunting for far more than just her, this time.
Overwhelmed time.
Overwhelmed by grief and outgunned by a necromantic conspiracy, Heather must fight for the survival of those around her, while searching for a reason to survive. survive.
And in the end, she\'ll have to decide: Does the necromancer who butchered her husband and son deserve a Detective\'s justice, or a mother\'s revenge?
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A webfiction serial, published weekly, From Winter’s Ashes offers a rich world where emotion fuels magic and great spirits walk the earth, all while telling the human tale of one mother’s struggle to put her family to rest.
You can follow the tale directly on the From Winter’s Ashes website at http://fromwintersashes.wordpress.com
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