Rootbound — Shannon Mayer

"My name is Larkspur, and I am an Elemental."

My people use the power of the earth to sustain life and defy our enemies. I am the half-breed bastard child of a king. I was not meant to survive the trials cast my way. Yet, here I stand.

The world has deteriorated in the twenty years I was imprisoned in an oubliette. The Elemental families are rife with deception, violence, and madness more than ever before.

A voice I know all too well calls me to do her bidding. A voice I no longer wish to hear. The mother goddess begs me to save the four families, and stop my nemesis from breaking the world. To do it,I must face each of the Elemental leaders and take from them the over addictive power they hold closely: the stones I once handed them in friendship and trust.

Now, the secrets I unearth as I pursue the stones shatter everything I know about my world, my beliefs, and everything I was taught.

Yet, I am not the naïve girl I once was. If I am to see this through, I must completely embrace the new reality of my life and all its obstacles while forging ahead.

Four stones abused.
Four families broken.
A half-breed princess as their only hope.

Through it all, the one I love waits for me to find him. When I do, will he, like everything else in my world, not be what he once was?