The end of every story begins another...Vanarra de Gonari has lived one of the most amazing lives in Thurian history. Beginning as an outcast Anati, she survived after her mother's murder left her an orphan at age eight, educated herself, and built a thriving business. She made her closest friend with a purebred, Sahnassa de Orturu, and together, the two changed Thurian history forever. Mixed bloods are now seen as equals to their purebred counterparts, and a shining faith of tolerance, responsibility, and love for others is shaping a new golden age. There has been peace between the houses for nearly one hundred seasons, but the sick and elderly Grand Matriarch of de Gonari is not at peace. Her lifelong friend, the Grand Matriarch Sahnassa, has gone missing and reports even suggest she ended her own life at sea. Vanarra cannot believe it. She feels her dear presence whenever she dreams at night. Learning this, Vanarra's senior aides grow wary of their storied matriarch and watch her closely.In a revelation that terrifies and excites her, Vanarra learns that she would have been dead nearly two hundred seasons ago on the side of a mountain if not for an amazing rescue. The one who healed her then now offers Vanarra a new life, far away from Thuria. Faced with the decision of leaving all she knows, she must choose - abandon her house and those who remain or seek some new incarnation of her life shrouded in uncertainty, knowing...The beginning of every story ends another...

Author Biography

James Todd Lewis is a fiction author living in Orlando, Florida with his lovely wife and two children. He is a native of Warner Robins, Georgia and a graduate the Mercer University School of Liberal Arts and its Great Books Program. He's been writing novels and short stories since 1982.