Azaya and the Central Expanse: A Found Family and Kinship Fantasy novel - Couverture souple

Mandrake, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798193966319

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Two girls meet at a river that has kept their peoples apart for over a hundred winters. Next thing you know, there's a friggin' festival going on.

Azaya is eight winters old, small for her age, and scribe to the Orra-Kai. She keeps a notebook, collects rocks, and talks to yaks as though they are people, which they seem not to mind. She has a mother who lost an arm protecting her, an older sister she is not related to, and a guard who is three hundred and seventy winters old. Yeah, it's complicated.

Then she meets Rinna on the far bank and learns two things. That Rinna's people are the Hunters everyone has been afraid of since before anyone can remember. What follows is a friendship. There is no villain. Nothing is destroyed. Two children build a bridge because the river is in the way of playing, and the adults who spent generations failing to build one stand on the banks and watch it happen.

Azaya and the Central Expanse is a slow, warm, character-led fantasy about kinship claimed rather than inherited. About mothers who did not give birth. Sisters who chose each other. And a prophecy that turns out to be fulfilled by shared meals and stubborn kindness rather than by anyone chosen. No romance. No peril. No one saves the world. Just the steppe, the food, the horses, and the people who decide to be family.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798193966319
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 247
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg