The Darkness Within (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781916117129)

A dark secret kept for thousands of years.

A species bond broken by years of mistrust.

A woman who stands to lose everything she had worked so hard to save.

Sinister forces who will do anything to serve their own needs.

When Nidiri Reira Abrasar gave her life to the temple, it was against the better judgement of her people, only getting acceptance at the final moment. Before starting her new life, a darkness decends and ruins her plans, a tragedy that rips her and her family apart. She makes a personal pledge to step into the role she never really wanted, Acolyte at the cloisters, a honour that cannot be turned down, to train to become the next Codex - the second most important person in the empire.

Even though it isn't easy to leave all that you have been working towards and everything and everyone she knows behind. She made a go of it and tried to fulfil the promise she made. Only to later be cast out at the final stages, moments from glory. Her life ruined, she returned to a simpler life of devotion and prayer.

Ten years later, she was finally happy, until that eventful night. Another tragedy shifts her life back to the life she thought she had lost.

Old grudges and sinister forces emerge and try to force her hand, will she follow her own destiny or the destiny that others have decided for her.

Will Reira allow her own destiny to triumph or will she succumb to the darkness within...