Stealing the Light

Trolls. Shapeshifters. Fairypeople. Discover the magic Two young people with the Curse grow up amid the chaos of a world where the Tainted are outlawed and blamed for illness, crime, and poverty throughout the Duitiscish Kingdoms. Catherine, the gravedigger's daughter, learns to survive on theft and manipulation. When she steals from the wrong man, she has to suffer the consequences, but the tables turn when she finds three books of magic in an old castle ruin that seems to come alive whenever she steps through the gates. On the other side of the Northern Forest, a secret community known as The Fair takes in a refugee boy from the Sudlands. Lorcan's magical Abilities surpass all others, but the lad's father brings tragedy upon the safe haven. Murder and betrayal shape the lives of both Catherine and Lorcan as they become adults, and their fates are linked in more ways than one.Can they survive the aftermath of war and persecution, or will their own people's duplicities lead them into disaster?Writer's Digest 5-star top-rated fantasy