Hunter and Fox

In a world that is in constant shifting, where mountains can change to plains and then to lakes, Talyn is the Hunter for the Caisah, and a wreck of a once-proud person. She has lost her people, the Vaerli, and her soul working for the man who was their destruction. Unknowingly, she carries within her a Kindred, a chaos creature from the center of the earth that wants to help bring the Vaerli back to power, but she is blind to that hope. Yet hope is coming regardless, and it wears the face of gentleness and strength. Finn is a teller of tales who carries his own dreadful secret, but he is on the trail of Talyn. He knows the danger and yet is drawn to her. Their fates are bound together. Meanwhile, the Hunter’s lost brother, Byre, is searching for his own solution to the terrible curse placed on the Vaerli. He sets forth on a treacherous journey of his own, one that will intersect in the most unlikely place with that of Talyn and Finn. The ramifications of this encounter will be felt by all the people in Conhaero, from the lost Vaerli to the Caisah on his throne.Philippa Ballantine is the co-author of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series with Tee Morris. As a solo author, Philippa wrote Geist, Spectyr, and the forthcoming Wrayth, for the Books of the Order series. Philippa is a trained librarian and is addicted to the smell of old books.