Author: ceclayton

Monsters come in many forms, and not everyone knows a monster when they see one. After three hundred years of monstrous, feral elves plaguing the island nation of Selkirk, everyone believes they know what a monster is. Humans have learned to live with their savage neighbors, enacting a Clearing every four years to push the elves back from their borders. The system has worked for centuries, until … until after one such purge, a babe was found in the forest.As Tallis grows, she discovers she isn’t like everyone else. There is something a little different that makes people leery in…