Tower of Trials

In Avalon, half spirits face an ordeal to shed the last of their humanity and become powerful beings that dutifully serve the gods. That won’t be easy for Guard who was abandoned as an infant at the City of the Dead. He doesn’t know his human name or family, just that a part of him is still, ironically, haunted by humankind.

For this twenty-one-year-old half spirit, his ordeal approaches in the form of a young human woman. Lydia seeks the shade of her recently deceased fiancé. To restore her fiancé’s life, she must defeat the Trials of The City’s Tower and summon the shade from The Vault. Failure at any point means she will join the shade in death. For Guard, his prize is won by guiding her, whatever outcome she may earn.

While they struggle with the physical challenges in the Tower, Guard becomes more and more involved in his charge’s plight. This wakens the human emotion of compassion in him, making it difficult for him to become what he was raised to be: a guardian of the home he loves, the City of the Dead.

Fantasy novella of about 35,000 words.
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