The Precious Quest: An Epic Journey of Love, Identity and Power

“Life” was once understood. We warred, we died, and we were reborn. New life was a gift from the Goddess. This was the way since the beginning. Then without cause, without warning, there were no more gifts. The only way to have a child was to steal one, and eventually, there were none left to steal. In each tribe, there were many who accepted, some who questioned and a few who acted. I am one of the few—I lead the Horde. The Horde has not borne a child in nineteen years, and so, searching for answers, we have travelled out of our domains. Further even than Dorn’s memory can trace. Every colony, every tribe we come to, is childless. The cycle for them, as for us, has stopped, but it is up to the Horde to restart it.

Laywren must make a choice and her world's survival depends on her making the right one--DreÓdreng to the goddess or Módor to the unnaturals?

Blessed by the goddess and raised to be a warrior, mixed-breed Laywren is brutal but fair. She lives by the sword, dagger and arrow, and she survives in a dystopian world by binding her horde of nomadic warriors to her with medieval oaths and promises of the goddess' blessing.

Searching for answers to the barrenness of land and people that threatens their very existence, she leads the horde on an epic journey of war and faith in search of the most precious quest--children.

When it becomes apparent to Laywren that the souls she sends to the Hall do not return, and the giant from the mountain claims the unnatural beasts are rising, and every village they plunder is childless, her faith weakens.

Faced with extinction, Laywren is blessed one final time with the flush of fertility, but not by the goddess. Knowing her blessing is the result of unnatural magic, and faced with an incomprehensible mate, Lawyren must choose between being a DreÓdreng Warrior Queen or the first MÓdor in decades.

Time is running out as the dawn rises and the flush begins to fade from her skin. Which will save her world--war against the unnaturals or acceptance of life beyond the control of the goddess?