Welcome. This the the website for the ebook novel The Wolf of Helocene – a new, gripping dark fantasy cycle. The book is available at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk for Kindle and Kindle readers. Find out more about how to download a copy here. A free extract is available here.
Read on for some background to the story:
Arna’s world is governed by the Laws – a complex set of rules and regulations, feasts and rituals that shape the lives of everyone, even the non-human races that inhabit the darkest places. But the Laws have become a tool of control, enforced by the hated Keepers, and resented by many.
Arna herself is seventeen years old and has never left her village. She is quiet and timid, living in her own head. But when her younger sister Rhion fails to return in time for an important feast, Arna feels a nagging desire to travel to the city of Moelberg and find her. Beniol, the village’s despised Keeper of the Laws, makes the risks clear: with only three days before a festival that forbids women from leaving their homes, Arna must move fast – or face a terrible punishment for breaking the Laws.
Her mission to find Rhion is riddled with perils, including encounters some of the mysterious races that inhabit her world: the bitter and evil Kurne, who hunt in the immense Llansor Forest; the ancient Sennen, who lie imprisoned beneath the city of Moelberg, and the enigmatic Nagael, who only emerge from hiding once a year to travel the cursed ghost paths.
The are shocking revelations too, about her own destiny. Arna discovers her family’s forbidden history, and her mother’s true nature; in turn, she begins to unravel the agendas behind the men, and creatures, who pursue her: the black-clad Lord Morkos; the fearsome Sergeant Sartain, and the feeble Prince of Moelberg.
Her journey leads to war and upheaval, and Arna must choose which side to take in the approaching conflict. It will change her world forever, and set her against her own mother and sister. But a new family waits for her – one that will mould Arna into a new person: a warrior, a leader, and a traitor.
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