Light of the Ancients
(2023)(The first book in the Kingdoms of Light and Shade series)
A novel by Saraya Kandi
All Avesta wants is to escape the drudgery of her poor and toiling life from the village where beasts roam in the dark.
What do you do when your boyfriend breaks up with you because he thinks a beast has touched you?
What do you do when the villagers think you are tainted, cursed and just plain odd?
The village girls hate you because the most eligible boy wants only your friendship.
Then you realise your problems are only beginning….
When the beast took you, he bestowed you with a gift and now the great city of Krome wants you for it. You resist them because they are harsh taskmasters. You feel coerced, watched but mostly afraid when you realise the beast has always been close.
All Redian wants is to do the work of the city, fulfil his duty so that balance may be restored in these lands.
However she walks into his life with a hundred questions. Answers which would only lead her into his dark world.
He must protect her. He must stay away from her. She must never know who he truly is.
Read Light of the Ancients to find out if Redian manages to stay away and if Avesta gets the life she truly deserves.
A dystopian Beauty and the Beast retelling.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
What do you do when your boyfriend breaks up with you because he thinks a beast has touched you?
What do you do when the villagers think you are tainted, cursed and just plain odd?
The village girls hate you because the most eligible boy wants only your friendship.
Then you realise your problems are only beginning….
When the beast took you, he bestowed you with a gift and now the great city of Krome wants you for it. You resist them because they are harsh taskmasters. You feel coerced, watched but mostly afraid when you realise the beast has always been close.
All Redian wants is to do the work of the city, fulfil his duty so that balance may be restored in these lands.
However she walks into his life with a hundred questions. Answers which would only lead her into his dark world.
He must protect her. He must stay away from her. She must never know who he truly is.
Read Light of the Ancients to find out if Redian manages to stay away and if Avesta gets the life she truly deserves.
A dystopian Beauty and the Beast retelling.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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