Broken Chalice: Book One of the Quest of Heroes Saga (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798244276343)

They once played at being heroes. Twenty years later, something from their childhood has come looking for them.

Dorn Greycastle, Guldor Mlezziir, Shava Xiloscient, Fanul Nalambar, Cora Smoothhands, Avan Sulyma, and Jalana Domine were once children together in the village of Velmere-friends who fought imaginary monsters with sticks and believed adventure waited beyond every tree.

Then they grew up.

They scattered across the world, following different paths and becoming warriors, scholars, healers, and adventurers. The childhood they shared became little more than memory.

Until a series of impossible attacks begins drawing them back together.

Hidden libraries are destroyed. Ancient places are left in ruins. Scholars and witnesses disappear. Records are erased so completely it is as though someone is determined not merely to kill-but to make certain that dangerous knowledge is forgotten.

And the attacks are getting closer to home.

As the old friends reunite, they discover that the pattern reaches back to the same villages, forests, and ruins where they once played as children. Someone is searching for something buried in the past.

Then another name resurfaces.

Rimardo Falone.

The lonely, brilliant boy who once stood among them disappeared long ago. None of them knows what became of him-or what darkness may have followed him when he left.

Now the friends who once pretended to be heroes must become heroes for real.

But the enemy waiting for them understands their history, their weaknesses, and the wounds they thought time had buried. And for Jalana, the coming confrontation threatens to reopen a part of her past she has spent years trying to escape.

Because some things that are broken cannot simply be put back together.

And some friendships leave scars that never truly heal.

Broken Chalice, Book One of the Quest of Heroes Saga, is an epic fantasy adventure of friendship, betrayal, dark magic, sacrifice, and childhood bonds tested by the people those children eventually became.