A.A. Night 
The Chains of Fate 
A Novel of Avonia

When tragedy strikes, the victims ask why. Then, they look for someone to blame.

For the Kharar of Beasthaven, the child Dar Hel is that someone. Born with snow-white skin and blood-red eyes in the midst of the worst plague in history, Dar Hel is deemed cursed and cast out of his village. Hungry and alone, his only hope for survival is to seek sanctuary with the Pale Folk of the White Wood. But the Pale Folk are fickle gods, and there is more to their chimeric paradise than meets the eye.

Igor Enleyen knows nothing of gods or plagues, but finds his own curse in the shadow of his deranged father’s tyrannical legacy. Unloved and unwanted in the town of his birth, he sets out to discover new lands…only to end up kidnapped by a cutthroat brigand. His usefulness exhausted once no ransom is offered, Igor is given up to the Pale Folk as tribute in exchange for divine favor.

After a chance meeting in the sylvan halls of the Pale, Dar Hel and Igor’s lives are changed forever. Bestowed with a glimmer of the Pale Folk’s divinity, these two exiles hold the power to shape the world in their image. But, burdened with the abuse of their peers and the trauma of their pasts, what kind of twisted world will they shape?