The young warrior-sorceress Lyna, has lost everything. Her friends, her family, her home. Everything she’s ever known or loved is gone.

Adrift and alone, she roams the world, looking for a place to belong while hunting and destroying every bane core she can find—objects of pure evil that leave nothing but madness and misery wherever they appear.

At the edge of civilization, Lyna comes to the isolated village of Tanasu, the home of her ancestors and perhaps her last chance at finding peace. It also harbors the deadliest, most potent bane core she’s ever faced.

Her task is obvious: Destroy the core. Free Tanasu. Find a new home.

But with each use of her power, her strange and innate ability to detect evil, more and more of Lyna is chipped away, leaving her weaker, brittler. And when she finds only death and a cursed land haunted by the spirits of her forebears, Lyna starts to question if there is any hope left in the world, and if her efforts are making any difference at all?

Now, Lyna must decide. Abandon her quest and leave the world to fend for itself? Or continue what has become a hopeless fight—at the risk of losing her soul.

Content Warning:
Surrender is part of The Baneseeker Chronicles, a dark fantasy series. It contain horror elements, as well as potentially triggering subject matter, such as mentions of abandonment, addiction, and suicide.

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