Book description
Karigan may have heard the First Rider's call, but she's not about to
let it take over her life . . . or at least that's what she thinks. She
swore to complete a dying man's mission - to deliver a sealed letter to
King Zachary. Now that task, more dangerous than she could have
imagined, is complete and her work is done, Karigan wants to leave the
dangerous world of tainted magic and ancient magicians behind her and
return home. Exhausted in both body and spirit, she plans to return to
her quiet life and her father's business. But it proves no match for the
Rider's call; ghostly hoofbeats sounding in her mind, visions of the
freedom of the open road, all calling her back to the king's service as
a Green Rider. Karigan resists it, but when she wakes up to find herself
- in her nightdress - on horseback and halfway across the country, her
destiny is clear: she is a Green Rider. As she discovers, it's not a
good time to be called to serve. For a thousand years the D'Yer Wall, a
physical and magical barrier protecting the land from the ancient,
corrupted Blackveil Forest, has held. For a thousand years the forest,
an arboreal prison containing one of Sacoridia's greatest enemies, has
been quiet. Not any more. The wall has been breached, unnatural, lethal
creatures are finding their way into Sacoridia, a dark sentience is
stirring, and the Green Rider magic itself is failing. And in the midst
of it all, Karigan is about to be called to her duty . . . Kristen
Britain lives in a log cabin in Maine where she writes full time and
pursues interests reading, guitar playing, and cartoon illustration. She
enjoys exploring the magical places around her and can often be found
paddling a canoe in stillwater, ambling through the woods to mountain
summits, or sitting along the rocky shore listening, watching, and
daydreaming.
