Jabone's Sword

Some twenty years after the end of the "great war," the children of the legendary heroes of the Kartik are growing restless. Jabone is the son of Tarius the Black. He and his friends have grown up with swords in their hands, constantly hearing stories of their parents' many battles and adventures. Now they want to have their own adventures and make their own stories.
Across the sea in the land of the Jethrik, the Amalite populations of entire villages are disappearing. A secret group of Amalites are suspected, but no one knows how - or where - they take their prisoners. The Jethrikian king must deal with the problem, but his thoughts lie mostly with his daughter Kasiria. She is the only woman to apply to, and graduate from, the Sword Master's Academy since the rule forbidding women to fight was struck from the books.
When Jabone and his friends - young Tarius and Ufalla, the children of Tarius's right-hand man, and Jestia, the wayward magic-wielding daughter of the Queen of the Kartik - want to cross the ocean and join the Jethrikian forces to fight their parents' enemies, Tarius forbids it at first. Finally she relents and sends them with her blessing and the gift of her knowledge of the enemy.
In a new land, the youths will find love and adventure, and they will learn loyalty, pain, loss, and the truth of battle.


Genre: Fantasy