The Good Shield: The Terkian Triplets: Book Two is currently underway and will be coming out soon.
Synopsis:
Fourteen-year-old Duke has lived his life isolated from the rest of Taercion after his sixth birthday ended with both of his parents being killed by the trained hands of the Samboolian King’s soldiers. Since then, Duke has only had one ambition in life: to kill the king.
But those in Sambool see Duke as only the strobanth, or the king’s shield. Because of Duke’s inherited strength, his job in the kingdom has become the very opposite of his goals: to protect the king.
Still, there is a softer side to Duke that only his few friends know. He loves to read. And though books are hard to find in Sambool, he seeks them out.
Meanwhile, the king of Sambool has been under the orders of his shrouded master, one with the plans to wipe out every other kingdom in Taercion, including the ruby kingdom of Hydlix where a certain green-haired princess lives that may be more like Duke than he first realizes when he sees her one day without her knowing. And when dark days further descend upon Sambool and the very people who have ostracized Duke all these years suddenly must rely on him to be their savior, Duke will have to make a difficult choice. Will he defend Sambool, or protect Sambool’s king, thus carrying out his sinister orders upon the rest of Taercion?
The answer may not be as simple as Duke would’ve hoped.
Look for The Good Shield, coming soon.
D.A. Gatlin 