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"Memories blur, meeting with a thousand others until you cannot be sure where one begins and the other ends. But some details stick out, like a lighthouse on a dark horizon. A cloudy sky in early morning grey, tinged with the shadows of ravens and gulls on the lookout for their next meal. Foamy waves, falling apart on the rocks in an explosion of salt-stench and sea-slime. Eddies forming in the black sand, spat out a thousand years ago by the volcano, some say, or crushed from boulders trampled by dragons, others insist." A new age has come to Jin-Sayeng. For Oji Kaggawa, son of Goran of Akki, the rise of the merchant caste was supposed to herald a bright future and prosperous times. But a blade has two sides, and sorrow is always a step away from joy. And young, idealistic Oji must learn about sacrifice and the price you pay when you dare fly too close to the sun...
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I write character-driven epic fantasy with huge doses of horror, angst, and frustratingly tangled character relationships. You can read more about my work at my website: http://www.ksvilloso.com __ K.S. Villoso was born in a dank hospital on an afternoon in Albay, Philippines, and things have generally been okay since then. After spending most of her childhood in a slum area in Taguig (where she dodged death-defying traffic, ate questionable food, and fell into open-pit sewers more often than one ought to), she and her family immigrated to Vancouver, Canada, where they spent the better part of two decades trying to chase the North American Dream. She is now living amidst the forest and mountains with her family, children, and dogs in Anmore, BC.