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      The Child Returns

      by Kristen Taber
      Published
      Jun 2012
      Main Genre
      Epic Fantasy Epic Fantasy
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      381
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      Series
      Aerenden Book 1

      About This Book

      Murder. Monsters. Magic. To Meaghan, these words belong in newspaper articles and children's stories, not her carefully planned life. Until the day she and her friend Nick witness her parents' brutal demise at the hands of red-eyed creatures. They flee into the wilderness where Nick tells her the creatures, known as Mardróch, came from another world to kill her. He gives her a choice--face the Mardróch alone or escape through a portal into a distant kingdom.

      It isn't much of a choice.

      Ærenden is a land more beautiful and sinister than Meaghan could have ever imagined. Vines attack. Monkeys freeze their victims with a glare. Soldiers create bombs from the air. Even Meaghan's newly discovered empath power turns into a danger she cannot control.

      But control becomes the least of her worries when she learns the truth behind the kingdom's fifteen-year civil war--a long-buried secret that could cost Meaghan her life.

      B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree
      2014 Best Kindle Book Awards Finalist
      ABNA Quarterfinalist

      Book 1 of the Ærenden Series

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      Series
      Aerenden
      Book 1
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      Genres & Themes

      Genres

      Speculative Fiction

      Subgenres

      Epic Fantasy Fantasy Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery

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      May 2012 Sean Tigh Press ISBN 0985120002
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      Jun 2013 Kristen Taber ISBN B00DCYERPU
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