The Keepers of Mercia

By James I. Marino

While Binette awaits her father in the large trade village of Riversplit, she encounters an elder who confirms scant rumors being spread by merchants that a religious legion in the far west, known as the Jebedah, have been pressing villages into its ranks through sadistic means. Stirred by the perceived stature of the elder, and an unexplainable sense of burden, Binette leaves home and journeys west with the elder and his bodyguard, a spirited warrior who is as complex as she is fierce. By the time Binette fully understands how dangerous a threat the Jebedah pose to all of Mercia, and as she struggles to contemplate the savage destruction around her, she learns that her role in assuring the land's future will be far larger than she could have possibly imagined. The trust and admiration she has for the elder are tested by events, past and present, that reveal to Binette the tenuousness of the line that separates righteousness from corruption.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612964419
• ISBN13: 9781612964416
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Black Rose Writing
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"