A DYING KING: Book I of the Zhala Trilogy

My name is Zhala. Ailwick Zhala. I am girl but I will go on to be a sailor, a castaway, a fugitive, a prisoner and the foremost political insurgent the Monarchy will ever see. I live with my father. He is very rich and very important but acts like he isn’t either of those things but he is the cleverest man in the Monarchy. We don’t talk about my mother much. What happened to her was pure horror. I did inherit something from my mother. They call it the Craft; you could call it bane or boon. What I know is that if I wanted your opinion it would allow me to crack your mind open and take it. The Monarchy is in trouble. The king is dying. Not dead, just dying. He won’t get any better but he won’t get any worse. Everyone thinks my father did something to the king which I think is hilarious but he doesn’t. So while the king lays there in his shit, which something else I think is hilarious, his children rule the Monarchy. They are insane and their idea of ruling is to kill everyone who is not like them. The hate people who are different. People like me. We need the king to recover so he can put things right or we need him to die so the ruling family can be overthrown. It doesn’t matter which. What we cannot have forever is a dying king. A Dying King is the first volume of The Zhala Trilogy – an innovative and unconventional fantasy that has a vein of dark humour running through it. If you read it you won’t forget it.

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