ARC: Sunstone (35 page)

Cinereo watched Comminor bring Sarra beneath the branches and settle around the sunstones, the baby safe and secure in her arms. A thousand different emotions moved through him, but the greatest of all was joy.

The world was at peace, and the element of earth was in the ascendant.

For now.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I’d like to acknowledge those people who matter most to me.

My parents – my lovely mum, Jan, who first interested me in historical fiction and who can still remember that story I wrote about King Arthur; and my dad, Barry, who reads all my books, and who got me hooked on sci-fi and fantasy. Thank you for following me to the other side of the world – I love you both.

My parents-in-law – Ann, who made me feel so welcome from the first time we spoke on the phone and who is still so encouraging; and John, a real old-fashioned gentleman whose love for science and inventions gives me so many ideas. I love you and your chickens.

Mark and Jo, Lucy and Ben – our best friends. We’ve known you for so long and we’ve had such fun together. Long may it continue.

This book is for all of you.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Freya is a lifelong fan of science fiction and fantasy, as well as a dedicated gamer. She has a deep and abiding fascination for the history and archaeology of the middle ages and spent many hours as a teenager writing out notecards detailing the battles of the Wars of the Roses, or moping around museums looking at ancient skeletons, bits of rusted iron and broken pots. She  also has an impressive track record, having published over twenty romance novels under her pseudonym, Serenity Woods.

She lives in the glorious country of New Zealand Aotearoa, where the countryside was made to inspire fantasy writers and filmmakers, and where they brew the best coffee in the world.

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