More than a Wizard

Should. Will. Can.

Should Corrie trust Sverr? Will she? Can she?

Months ago, Corrie fled the Prime Wizard’s prison. When he sends guards to re-capture her, the Norther swordsman Sverr helps her escape. She helps him escape the soldiers who want to arrest him for an assassination. They escape together after burning down an inn.

When she awakes with spell-binding cords on her, she feels betrayed by Sverr. But he convinces Corrie that he needs her help to rescue his brother, now imprisoned by the same Prime Wizard who had used her for his black spells. His brother, also a wizard, will be undergoing the same blood-letting that Corrie had faced.

Will Corrie help Sverr and his brother? Sverr’s plan is a convoluted scheme that involves her return to the prison from which she had escaped.

Yet she agrees. And is rewarded when Sverr helps her discover that her magic is much more powerful than she’d thought. He believes that she is a Bane Wizard.

Sverr’s plan will put her back in bonds and offered as a trade for his brother, with a tricksy denouement that should result in her freedom. Should. Will it? Can it?

Corrie commits to trusting Sverr and his plan. She will trust him. The question remains: Can she trust him?

A spicy Fantasy Romance in a Medieval World, 70,000 words