Caged Warrior - Avia, the Warrior, book 1 - a Väruld novel

The village is burned. Her daughter is dead. Her grandson is gone.

Avia has spent a lifetime as a warrior—tracking fugitives, taking dangerous work, and relying on skill rather than glory. She has no interest in becoming anyone’s hero.

When she reaches Peragri, the village where her daughter and grandson live, she finds blackened ruins. Her daughter Arica and son-in-law Bov are dead, and Putt has been taken along with the other children.

Avia goes after him.

Rescuing Putt is only the beginning. Grieving, displaced, and with nowhere to return to, the two set out together. Avia knows how to survive, fight, hunt, and make her way through a dangerous world. Raising a child is another matter entirely.

And Putt has ideas of his own.

When he decides he wants to become a warrior, Avia must work out what she can teach him, how much danger she can allow him to face, and where protection ends and control begins.

Their journey takes them through mountain villages, dangerous assignments, fighting arenas, new companions, and threats neither of them expected. Along the way, grandmother and grandson must learn how to live with each other—and what their new life is going to become.

Caged Warrior is a character-driven fantasy adventure about survival, responsibility, family, independence, and what it means to remain strong without becoming hard.

Perfect for readers who enjoy:

• older and unconventional fantasy protagonists
• capable women who do not need to prove they are capable
• complex family relationships
• mentor and apprentice dynamics
• character-driven fantasy
• journeys through a richly developed secondary world
• sword fights and danger without making combat the whole story
• characters faced with difficult choices rather than simple heroes and villains
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Caged Warrior is Book 1 of Avia, the Warrior and an entry point into the larger fantasy world of Väruld.

Delivered in pdf and epub formats.