All Faye has ever known is the sanctuary of Genn City. She knows the buildings, the colours of the roads in the afternoon sun and exactly how high the walls are. She knows every merchant, every trader, every nobleman and every Councilman. What she doesn't know is what's outside the walls, or who she can trust beyond the reach of the Council towers.
Orphaned at a young age, Faye was taken under the protection of the Council on which her father served. Why the Council won't let her out of their sight, and why even they won't travel beyond the high walls into the land they rule is a mystery to her; a mystery that up until now didn't bother her. But that was before they dragged him through the streets, howling and bleeding, all the way to the dungeons.
The wolf man.
Now Faye is doing the unthinkable - setting free a vicious beast and being kidnapped in the process. She is taken to his home, where more creatures roam the shadowed woods, and where there is talk of rebellion, talk of peace and talk of blood. All too soon Faye finds herself in the middle of a brewing war between the absent rulers and forgotten creatures of Genn, each with their own bone to pick with the Council who raised her.
At the end of it all, Faye is left wondering: who is telling the truth? The nightmarish creatures who took her from her home, or the mysterious men and women who kept her behind locked gates her whole life?
(In my head, Genn [the country] was a land made up of three or four races - the humans of Genn city, the wolf-men of the Dark Forest [not men who turn into wolves, but wolves who run upright like men, with human eyes and the ability to talk], the trolls of the swamps [great, hulking creatures with pebbled blue skin and tusks] and the nomadic tribes of the desert [very much like humans, but covered in shamanistic tattoos and with matching powers]).
AAP by jemcat
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