Bodybag: The Assassin's Apprentice (The Drakarae Chronicles)

I’m nameless.No one cares if I live or die.I’m stubborn.I won’t die in a war, even though someone paid to see me dead…My mother called me boy.After her lover sold me to the Pannonian army to fight in the Attican war, I knew I might never learn the truth about who I am, where I came from, and why she hated me.My outpost is high in the icy mountains. I desperately try to survive each bitter cold night. Starvation is close at hand. I don’t know when I last ate. Yet they keep throwing me into battle with a sword too heavy to wield, and my fellow soldiers torment me relentlessly… it's like they need me to die.I vow to outlive them all! My luck runs out and I am shot by a strange arrow. In agony I am pinned to a tree, unable to move. I resign myself to death. An unexpected kindness from a young enemy soldier, gives me a new chance at life and a new path.I return to find my outpost is destroyed. Unable to return home, I decide to hunt down the young woman responsible for sparing my life and strive to uncover long-buried truths better left forgotten…Like my name. Like who wants me dead. Like who I really am.This is a fantastic journey where the nameless boy discovers amazing magic called Aurae. He is introduced to a dark assassin by the name of Wraith, who takes the boy as his apprentice. A beautiful princess who wields powerful dark Aurae knows exactly who he is. The Attican soldier who saved his life, is now tasked to end it. Even Death himself comes into play in this fast paced, action packed fantasy."Sometimes one has to die... to discover the truth." -Deathalexiskonsantino.com

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