A Stag in the Shadows (Kingdom of Durundal - Age of Heroes. Book 4)

Saskia remembers when the soil of Durundal hummed with peace.. A fragile calm reigns in Durundal. King Lyall and his brother, Namir, King of the Clans, rule the kingdoms - but all around, ambitious rulers, eyeing the rich lands and wealthy settlements, are mounting raids.. One such ruler is Segan Hezekiah, self-appointed King of the Mountain.. When Saskia and her wealthy landowner father are captured and taken to Hezekiah Hall, she is incarcerated in a remote tower while her people are shackled and branded as slaves. Her father is thrown into the depths of a mine to search for gold. Though help from an unlikely source promises to groom her into a deadly assassin - which doesn't come without danger. . But Saskia will do anything to win freedom for her father and her people ... no matter the consequences.. Excerpt:'You might be my nemesis now, but I do not fear you. You think you have the power to destroy me, to keep me here, to imprison me - but you are wrong. I am the power - and one day I will destroy you. On that day I will see you as a blade of grass on the ground and cast aside your illusion of grandeur. Your face of stone will be like a veil of silk to me, a soft cushion of feathers, a bed of straw. I will escape your clutches and take flight like the owl. I will camouflage myself like the moth and I will look back at you with my huge vacuoles and watch you crumble into the pits of the earth - and then I will be gone from here forever.'