A Forest of Secrets
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  • Reads 201,479
  • Votes 15,495
  • Parts 42
  • Time 9h 13m
Complete, First published Mar 07, 2017
⭐ FEATURED ⭐ 02/16/2018 

Longlisted, Wattys 2018

✅ COMPLETE  

Jocasta's nineteen years of peaceful existence in a little village of the Kingdom of Ontur blew up in pieces without much warning: Grandmother had a secret, an old pact with a mysterious man-a pact that, apparently, Jo and her new tagalongs - a flamboyant mage, a goofball knight pledge and a young alchemist-now had to take care of, thanks to the untimely death of the King of Ontur.  A quest to find an ancient place, concealing an artifact of unmeasurable power and rumored to be deadly. And posthaste, before it falls into the wrong hands. That's something all grandmothers ask of their granddaughters sometime in their lifetime, right? And all that was at stake was the stability of the kingdom: no pressure. 
Set in a world where magic is vital, where mages are as equally feared and shunned as they're needed. A temporarily Kingless kingdom where vultures wait for the perfect time to take a plunge.  A world where secrets and lies are as abundant, dangerous and necessary as magic. But something else brews in the Kingdom of Ontur: something bigger than Jocasta and her Grandmother's secrets. 

 
⭐ 1st place in Fantasy, The Crystal Crown Awards 2017 ||  Highest ranking : #46 in Fantasy 03/04/2018
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