Sufferborn

When an elf’s name is branded to his soul at birth and defines him for life,

The forbidden name Dorhen’s mother gave him ties him down to a life of loneliness and pain.

His childhood crumbles as his father succumbs to black magic, his mother vanishes, and his home is consumed by flames.

Finding himself in the wilderness with only a cold fairy specter for company, Dorhen quickly loses himself to an endless wander.

But everything changes when he meets Kalea, a novice vestal whose compassion brings light into his dark world. Despite their differences, a spark ignites between them, and they are drawn together by the hope of a better future amid the onset of a famine caused by a greedy, faceless faction of sorcerers.

Kalea and Dorhen’s happiness is short-lived, however, when those very sorcerers raid her convent and kidnap her sisters. Fearlessly, Dorhen breaks into the shaken convent, but soon disappears in the chaos, and Kalea is left alone in the messy aftermath.

Determined to rescue her sisters and the elf she loves, Kalea sets out on a perilous journey across a land rife with magic and festering with an unknown evil. What she’s yet to discover about Dorhen is that his fate is far more terrible than she ever could’ve imagined.

Can she save him from the monster he becomes?

Sufferborn is book 1 in a sprawling dark fantasy with interweaving plotlines, multiple points of view, and sensual elements. This gritty tale of heartache and courage under fire is not for the faint of heart and will appeal to fans of Elizabeth Haydon and Terry Goodkind.