Magelight
By (Author) Kacey Ezell
Baen Books
Baen Books
18th June 2025
United States
General
Fiction
Adventure / action fiction
Hardback
368
Width 156mm, Height 235mm, Spine 31mm
586g
Fleeing her sheltered life, a noblewoman must trust a warrior, a forester, and a thief to unlock her true power and face her destiny.
Embrace Your Power and Forge Your Destiny
All her life, Aelys of Brionne had been weak. As the noble daughter of one of the empires most powerful magic-wielding families, it should have been easy for her to live her dream of bonding with a warrior protector and joining the Imperial Battlemage Corps. But when her weakness robs her of her dreams, her best friend, and the man she loves, Aelys makes the only choice she can see: she takes her fate into her own hands and she runs, leaving her safe, protected world behind.
Now she must find a way to work with three dangerous strangersa warrior, a forester, and a thiefto escape the bandits stalking her, fight through the dangers of the untamed forest, and make her way back home, where her family and her destiny await.
Only . . . her violent protectors might be the key to the power and freedom shes always craved. Can Aelys find the strength to choose her own destiny and become the sorceress she was born to be Or lose herself on the path to power
After retiring from the USAF and flying medical emergency helicopters,Kacey Ezell is a full-time writer who specializes insci-fi/fantasy/alt history/horror fiction. Her first novel was a Dragon Award finalist in 2018, and her stories have been featured in Baens Years Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction compilation in 2017 and 2018. In 2018, her story Family Over Blood won the 2018 Years Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction Readers Choice Award.She writes for Baen and Chris Kennedy Publishing.