Bespoken

Adventure begins with choice.

Bespoken is a book of (sometimes dark) fantasy short stories about those moments where people are poised on the edge of adventure, choice between straying from the path that has been set for them or falling heedlessly back into it.

An old man, a hero beyond his glory, travels beneath the world to the hellish Under to fight for the dearest prize he's ever known.
A young woman is forsaken and held captive in an enemy land where gods are very real.
A hunter travels abroad to find a new home and begins to hear strange voices in the woods, he could swear they're talking to him.
The bond between brothers is tested by the weight of a crown and the blood of magic.
A medical procedure where the sum lost is greater than what is gained.