Condrie the tavern maid befriends a man on the run only to discover he is a firebird disguised in human form. Together they must elude the tyrant king's relentless forces while seeking the truth of who massacred other firebirds enslaved to the king.
Other books by Denise B. Tanaka
Denise B. Tanaka is a lifelong creator of magical beings and fantastic worlds. Her short stories appeared in the anthology AlternaTEAS edited by Elizabeth Gilligan, the anthology Once Upon A World No. 7, and in SQMag (No. 17) and New Realm (Vol. 1 No. 12; Vol. 2 No. 6) magazines. She is a recipient of the 2016 Mixy Award. She works by day as a paralegal in the challenging field of immigration law and, in her spare time, she creates historical and fantasy-based costumes.
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