Shadow and Lightning (The Lightning Rod Saga Book 1)

✍ Scribed by C.S. Ratliff

• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 385
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Two things Ranir Trysfal believed: magic wasn't real beyond the bard tales, and nobody from his village ventured beyond the mountains.

When he's attacked on a hunting tri[p by a shapeshifting creature of nightmares, his world is twisted inside out. Just as one fable is about to end his life, another steps in to save it. A fire mage. In a twisted turn of events, the mage dies, and another turns up—seeking answers.

Intrigued by the magic and old tales, Ranir vows to help find the murderous creature that he alone can identify. And when tragedy strikes again, he becomes endowed with the ancient power of lightning. There are only two problems; there is no other lightning mage to train him, and every other mage seeks to obtain his power.

Ranir will begin his treacherous journey through the dangerous mountains, and beyond. Guided across the kingdom by the mage, he'll come to learn some stories are true, especially when it comes to The Necromancer, a shadow mage responsible for a decade of death across the kingdom—and who has now returned with his sights set on Ranir’s power.

Will he become the hero the kingdom needs, or succumb to the darkness within, like the previous lightning elemental?

“A thrilling ride!” -Penelope Dawn

"A must read for fantasy lovers” - Stacy N. Hawks

"A truly spellbinding story." - Shaun Pinkham