It's available on Audible as well as Amazon and iTunes. You can get it for free with a trial membership in Audible, or buy it for $1.99 from Amazon if you also buy the ebook version. And if you're an Audible listener, make it one of your choices this month! It should soon have "Whispersync" turned on, where you can alternately read and listen, read and listen, and have your devices (Kindle and mp3 player) remember your place.
Here's the description (a ruined castle plays a prominent role):
She's the daughter of a witch and a wizard, with the talents of both - and the world had better watch out!
Daimbert the wizard just wants to spend some quality time with his daughter Antonia. He loves his peaceful kingdom of Yurt, but he and those around him are increasingly finding themselves hampered by their society's strictures and silent rules. The king doesn't want to marry any of the princesses offered to him, the duchess' twin daughters want to be respectively a knight and a priest, and Daimbert himself is forbidden by the norms of wizardry from a liaison with a witch - much less having a daughter.
And then the peaceful kingdom is suddenly not so peaceful, between the arrival of an exotic eastern princess and her elephant, a ravening wolf, an army of undead warriors, a bogus miracle worker, and an old enemy seeking vengeance.
Can Antonia save the day? She already knows how to turn someone into a frog. But she is after all only five years old. And the bogus miracle worker has a strange power over children....
An audio book (what we used to call "Books on Tape") is an interesting experience. It gives you more of the feeling of stories-told-out-loud around the campfire than sitting and reading. The narrator is called on to do different voices, to bring out the tension in the exciting parts, to make you want to know what happens next. The story is told by Daimbert the wizard, and when I first heard my stories being narrated, it was an odd sensation, because in my own head of course Daimbert sounds like me. The excellent narrator, Eric Vincent, brings out intensity I hadn't realized I'd put in.
If you've never read or listened to any of the Yurt series, you could plunge in here for a wild ride, but you might prefer to start at the beginning, with "A Bad Spell in Yurt." Happy listening!
© C. Dale Brittain 2017
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