Blood of Ancient Kings
About this ebook
A
story of love, honor, and courage.
You would think the life of a prince would be great, but
for the crown prince of Brinley that’s far from the truth. The only others near
his age in the palace are children of the servants who all tease him for having
no name. When he goes into the military he must conceal his identity but
finally gains some friends. When he is sent to deliver a message to the
overthrown tyrant King Burkhart he falls in love with the one woman he knows he
can’t have.
Aurita knows everyone hates her and her father but
everyone is forbidden to tell her why. What she does know is that for her and
her father the village is their prison and to leave seals their deaths. King
Langward controls their lives including who she will marry when she is of age
but he is kind to her. When King Langward’s son sends her a gift her father
teaches her to read and write so she can send him a note to thank him. They
begin to exchange letters. As the years pass she looks forward to the letters
she gets from the prince but doesn’t dare admit she has fallen in love with
him. When she meets the handsome corporal sent to deliver a message to her
father her heart is torn between him and the prince.
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About the author
Writing under the pen name V.J.O. Gardner, Valerie is an award wining author of full length fractured fairy tale fantasy novels. She has self published Blood of Ancient Kings which won an award in the very first contest she had ever entered. Her second book, Dracona’s Rebirth, is published by Ink Smith Publishing.
Always fascinated by both medieval times and sci-fi she was an avid reader and enjoyed a wide variety of literature and authors. She began writing in in the late 1980’s after graduating from Dixie State University in St. George, Utah, where she studied Fantasy Lit and Writing. Valerie is a member of the League of Utah Writers. Although she thought she was writing a short story when she began Dracona’s Rebirth it blossomed into the full novel it is today.
The good values Valerie was brought up with she instilled both in her children and in her writing. One of her first professional reviews commented that the story reminded him of the Boy Scout Law. While Valerie has been both a Boy Scout leader and a Girl Scout leader the story was written before then. You can visit her at www.vjogardner.com
