Night Spinner

Enebish is sixteen and, until the massacre at Nariin, ranks among the finest warriors in the Sky King's Imperial Army. She is a Night Spinner, one of the rare people able to control threads of darkness. Then her power slips from her grasp and a merchant caravan dies. She is now called Enebish the Destroyer and lives in exile at a remote monastery.

Her adoptive sister Ghoa, a captain in the Imperial Army, offers her a way out: carry the Sky King's hunting eagles to the capital. Enebish accepts. On the road she is publicly humiliated, and the rebel Temujin, whom Ghoa has chased for months, frees her from her punishment.

That rescue puts her loyalty in doubt. She is given a choice with two outcomes. If she captures Temujin, she earns back her place as a warrior. If she fails, she stays a criminal.

This is fantasy for young readers, set in a world inspired by the tundra and loosely inspired by The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The central tension is a disgraced soldier deciding where her duty lies, with a sister on one side and a rebel on the other.

Night Spinner is the first book in a duology. The story continues in Sky Breaker.