The Risen Age Archive
3 primary works
Book 1
When Danae Baledric flees her homeland in search of a cure for a degenerative malady that’s killing her father, she never expects the journey to teach her the price of her own ignorance. On a trek across foreign lands, Danae learns that beyond her own struggle, an eternal war rages. That conflict claims its victims one soul at a time.
Danae’s investigation reveals not only that her father teeters close to falling victim to sinister machinations, but also how her magical dabbling has spurred a hunt for her. Power, even employed in ignorance, has a cost.
An unexpected ally extends to Danae a chance to conquer her father’s fate. This same chance also offers her deliverance from a debt she never realized her enemies were tallying against her. But something bars Danae from claiming redemption—her insistence that she must achieve her goals in her own strength.
It’s an epic tale of curses and miracles, where headstrong ignorance creates bondage, and the desire to serve offers freedom.
Book 2
Friendships in ruin. A fading future. Death's shadow looming over all.
Danae Baledric beats a desperate retreat across a tundra wasteland, where neither she nor her magical abilities can hide. The stolen sword she carries guarantees her enemies hunt her, determined to reclaim the blade. In the meantime, the weapon's supernatural voice bores into her companions' hearts with whispers that sunder trust and truth.
But Danae cannot quail before the perils closing in. A curse drains her father's very life with each day that passes. Before she can return to her homeland to save him, she must deliver the sword to the city of Bilearne.
Every step Danae takes toward fulfilling her quest uncovers new obstacles to her primary desire-to grow in magical knowledge great enough to see her father healed. And then a war rages across her path. Factions splinter and promises crumple under a siege that strangles Danae's last hopes.
In the midst of war's devastation, Danae must summon the strength to do what's right, even if it means jeopardizing everything she first set out to conquer.
Book 3
Danae Baledric has outsmarted a fiend, survived a siege, even turned the tide of a war-but can she fight her way back to her family before servants of Queldurik unleash a genocidal horror?
While deep in her long-coveted study of Thaumaturgy, Danae discovers her father's stabbing is merely a tiny facet of a much greater threat. And while Culduin gladly serves as Danae's guide and field medic, he never anticipated the task of operating a millennia-old relic would fall to him.
Danae and Culduin's race to hidden ruins reacquaints them with both friends and foes they thought they'd left behind. With every step they take closer to their goal, they must question whom they can trust-and whom they dare endanger.
What began as one girl's quest to save her father explodes into a climactic battle that will seal the fate not only of Danae's family, but of Creo's followers everywhere.