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Volume 2: Griffin's Shadow
High Praise for Griffin’s Shadow!
”Moore’s narrative drive and suspenseful plot twists
will leave readers eager for the conclusion to this intricate
and appealing tale.”
— Publishers Weekly
 Available Now From Amazon.com Volume 1: Griffin's Daughter Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for the Best First Book in Fiction  |
 Coming January 2010 from Ridan Publishing Volume 3: Griffin's Destiny |
Griffin's Daughter Trilogy
" This is the opening tale of what looks to be a great epic fantasy. Fantasy
fans who read this author's first published tale will demand Moore
adventures in the Soldaran Empire and beyond. "
Harriet Klausner, named by Time as
one of the 15 of the 'Web Generation's movers and shakers'
Two nations on the brink of war...
For the last hundred years, an uneasy truce has existed between the elves of Alasiri and the humans of the far larger and more powerful Soldaran Empire---a truce which will soon be shattered. Alasiri has long feared invasion from its southern neighbor, an empire burdened by overpopulation and hungry for new territory.
Eighteen year old Jelena Preseren has spent her entire life as a kitchen drudge and outcast in the house of her uncle, the Duke of Amsara, because of her mixed human and elven blood. Though her life is hard, Jelena has managed to find a small measure of contentment, but one terrible day, events beyond her control force her to flee Amsara forever. Jelena discovers that she harbors a mysterious and potentially dangerous power within her, a blue fire which she cannot control. Her only hope of learning its true nature is to find the unknown elven man who fathered her. Accompanied by her human cousin, Jelena sets off to find her father. Her only clue to his identity is a white gold signet ring with an inlay of a griffin.
Ashinji Sakehera is a young elven man unhappily constrained by the dictates of a society as tradition-bound and hierarchical as its Soldaran counterpart. He has been troubled with a reoccurring dream, one in which a dark-haired, half-elven girl cries out to him for help, only to be swallowed up by a mysterious force of unspeakable menace. Ashinji has no idea what the dream means, but he will soon find out its significance in a stunning confrontation on the banks of a river.
Meanwhile, an ancient entity, imprisoned and unconscious for a millennium, has at long last awakened. Implacably evil, its lust for revenge upon those who stripped it of power and exiled it to the eternal dark is second only to its desire to reclaim the key to its lost magic, a magic that will allow it to escape its prison and destroy, then remake, the material world to suit its own purpose. The entity with no name knows the magical key resides within a vessel, a living being that carries the energy in the form of a blue fire...
Griffin's Daughter is the story of a young woman's struggle to find her place in the world and a young man's search for his lifes purpose. In the process, they each discover the strength of true love.
Coming Feb 27th, 2009
Griffin's Shadow, the exciting next installment of the Griffin's Daughter Trilogy