A Single Brightness

How much of what they say is true? Enough, though most of the truths are intertwined with lies.Wounded, shackled, and pursued by old friends turned enemies, Jabrael arrives at a refuge hidden within a forested mountain. She is surrounded by rumours, some claiming her a hero, and vastly more calling her a liar and a murderer. Before the mountain’s leaders decide whether she is an ally or a danger, she agrees to tell them how it all began.At fourteen, Jabrael was the half-human Crown Princess of a people who had already lost their world. She found freedom from the expectations of Court in her fiercely independent best friend, Lady Elyria. Yet even El did not know her greatest secret: Jabrael is a Channeller, and her God had forbidden her to reveal it.When an enemy from the Sila’s dark history breaches New Andradae’s immensely fortified defences, the war Jabrael has known only through books and stories becomes a horrifying reality. Neither princess nor friend is prepared for what awaits them.“My picture was stark black and white, and it was a lie.”A Single Brightness is the first volume of The Iron Chest, book one in the Amereld series, an adult epic fantasy of family, faith, friendship, political intrigue, magic, and the slow, complicated making of a woman whose life will become far stranger than she ever imagined.