The Marble Key

"Come on, girl," the stranger demanded. "I don't have all night. And neither do you!” Dare she trust him? Dare she not? In a matter of moments, the girl’s life had been turned upside down. A simple serf-girl from the hinterlands of the Galtian Empire, Marisse had always known her place. Then the strangers came. Caught between the unrestrained power of the Imperial Commercial Guild, the machinations of the Baron who controlled her, and this group of rag-tag ruffians, Marisse would surely be crushed. Unless… She took the stranger’s hand and he hefted her onto the horse's back. In that instant, the whole world changed. The Marble Key is a 70,000 word fantasy novel.