The Mountain King

When Assassins break into the palace and kill his brothers, young Prince Jair Serenth of Elan is tossed out the palace window clinging to nothing but the neck of the captain of his father’s royal guard and whisked away to the isolated mountains of Vendica, far from his home, from his father, his true identity. He must forget his past and become Joah Makai, a ‘regular’ boy and son of the man who rescued him, or risk the Assassins finding him and finishing their task. He is taught how to master every weapon with hard work and practice. How to survive and how to live alone. Lastly, he’s taught everything his new father has ever heard about the One they call Yahweh. Most days, God is the only One with Joah, and almost all the time that’s perfectly fine with Joah. But those other times he desires a woman, a companion, a wife. When he finally leaves the mountains, it’s to return to Elan to the bedside of his real father, the dying king. Along the journey he’ll pick up a mysterious fifteen year old runaway from Predaria who calls himself a Christian and risks his life to buy Joah a book he calls The Holy Bible. And a beautiful, accursed Assassin on the hunt for any sign of the prince who is rumored to have escaped the ‘Massacre of the Princes’ seventeen years ago. Elywa Tajyar has been an Assassin with the Guild for eleven years. She killed her first target when she was nine and soon became one of the Guild’s most elite killers. She’s ruthless and shows no mercy to her victims, just as Catchers showed her parents no mercy when they slaughtered them and sold her and her crying brother to separate owners. Now, with the largest purse any Assassin has ever been offered, she is tasked with finding and killing Prince Jair Serenth of Elan–if he’s alive . She has no time or place in her life for a mountain man who counts the stars, a boy who happens to resemble what her brother might look like, or their god. Nevertheless, she finds herself traveling with them across the Tragarr Mountains to get to Elan. Even worse, amid the dangers of the world they live in, and the terror of bats in a mountain pass, she begins to lose her heart to Joah Makai and his light-hearted smiles; to the sound of his voice reading about Yahweh’s Son beneath the stars. He’s subservient and his heart shines like a light in the terrible gloom. But soon, truths must be revealed. Can they keep their young traveling companion safe from what seems like every Catcher in the land? And why is the life of the boy from Predaria so important to the slavers? Will Elywa ever find her brother? Can she kill the true heir of Elan,the man who has won her heart from the gates of hell and brought her to the throne of the One True King for grace and forgiveness? If she can’t, can she stand at his side and stop others from killing him when he returns home to claim his crown? —- ISBN: 9798325564994