Rhenn the Traveler

Rhenn has been taken from her home in Usara and carried across to the continent of Daemanon by Nhevalos, a man whose motives she cannot read. He shows her a threat she did not know existed: the Giants have returned, and they intend to take their world back.

Nhevalos claims to be directing the resistance, moving people and forces like pieces on a board where lives are the stakes. He insists he and Rhenn are allies. She has good reason for doubt, since he has shut her inside a cage with no doors and still expects her to call him a friend.

Determined to break free, Rhenn makes a deal with a scuttling necromancer who offers to bring her back to Usara. The bargain goes wrong. The necromancer has plans of his own that involve a queen, and she exchanges one captor for a more dangerous one.

The book follows Rhenn as she tries to outwit the necromancer, slip away from Nhevalos and reach Usara before Daemanon closes around her. It is fantasy with a lone heroine, shifting loyalties and a steady sense of being hunted from every side.