Exclusive Excerpt
The Night River: The Foxfires Trilogy,
Book Three
GENRE: YA fantasy adventure
RELEASE DAY: SATURDAY DECEMBER 19TH 2020
Enter a frozen world of brutal beauty, where Spirits roam, nights last for months, and magic is wrought by the beat of a drum…
BLURB:
As the light returns, darkness will fall...
Spring is coming to the Northlands, but even as winter fades, an icy terror spreads. The three Worlds are on the brink of collapse, and ancient monsters rise from the earth, their wicked eyes set firmly on the mages.
Tuomas, still reeling from his defiance of the Great Bear Spirit, must finally face the reality of who he is. Mihka is furious with him, Elin refuses to speak to him, and the people do not trust him. As the villagers drive the reindeer back into the south to safety, he must set out with Lumi one final time to right his wrongs and keep the Worlds from falling apart.
But this quest shall bring the greatest test of all, for it will take him into the Deathlands: a place where no living person has ever stood...
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EXCERPT
“Are you sure we’ll be safe out here?” Tuomas asked.
“Certain,” she replied.
“In that case, I’ll cross through the fire and check on Lilja, before we go into the World Below.”
“Do you think that wise?”
“Why not? She doesn’t know the Silver One is calling off the trolls.”
“And what of the boy?” She brandished her arm at the tent. “What will you tell Lilja in regard to her son?”
“That he’s safe, which is true,” replied Tuomas. “Lumi, I just want to make sure she’s alright. She wasn’t holding up too well when she left.”
She sighed, flicked her tail and shot a jet of blue across the snow.
“Fine. I shall remain here and mind Aki. But first…” She reached out a hand. “Will you dance with me?”
Tuomas blinked. He looked at her, then at the sky.
“Dance?” he repeated. “But I thought you couldn’t go back into the World Above.”
“Not yet, that is true. Even when I defended you in your dream, spoke with my mother, it was still here,” she replied, spitting out mention of the Moon Spirit like a dart. “But I am still the White Fox One.”
Tuomas smiled. “Fox fires.”
He wove his fingers with hers. She let her head roll back, her hair billow like a snowstorm. The aurora spilled from every inch of her skin, enveloped them, lifted them off the ground. It wasn’t by much – only a few feet – but after so long spent walking and running, it felt like the whole sky had opened beneath her.
She cartwheeled and dived, pulling Tuomas at her side. As she moved, his own tail swept about, sent sparks flickering from the end.
Her body came apart, twisted into a thousand shapes. She sensed he wanted to do the same, forsake his cage of flesh and bone, let the flames and light inside free as he had long ago… but it was not possible. He was trapped by life itself, by mortality, by everything else he held equally dear.
That hurt more than she was expecting. She felt it, so deeply, that water rained from her face and became a flurry of snowflakes.
If only he knew.