Shattered Moon

A distant future. A recovering world. Remnants of a shattered moon traverse the skies, memorials to an ancient and nearly-forgotten conflict. In an isolated northern land, society is overseen by the reclusive, all-female, Guild of Dawnsingers, which holds a monopoly on advanced learning. Life seems peaceful and well-ordered. But are the Dawnsingers as benevolent as they seem? What secrets are they hiding? And what really lies beyond the mountains in the East? Orphan Jerya unexpectedly finds a home in the Dawnsingers' Guild, but her new life turns sour. Soon she finds herself struggling to reconcile the exhilaration of learning with her growing doubts about the very basis of the Guild's rule. Ultimately she faces an agonising choice which could utterly change her life, and the lives of her two most trusted friends. Award-winning outdoor writer Jon Sparks turns to speculative fiction in the first book of The Shattered Moon series

For the first time in the history of the Known Lands, the house of Apstone presents a novel written by a slave. Numikès is a slave in the 'liberal' house of Arkenshaw; Lady Telfrid a niece of Numi's owner. But when Telfrid picks Numikès to carry secret messages, it precipitates a chain of events beyond anything they could have imagined. Forced to navigate the expectations of others, they discover new truths about the world and about themselves, and venture to places they'd never thought they'd see.