The Roatyer Beast: A Young Adult Fantasy Story (TOME OF MYSTERY Book 3)

Maddie is entranced by the elf woman Shielane, and as the two work to keep the wounded thief, Tiller alive, Maddie discovers that there was more to the scroll she found with him than she’d first understood. Shielane looks at her with something almost like worship! Before she can figure anything out though, a terrifying and hideous creature bursts through the door as though it were paper and all of Maddie’s thoughts about the mystery disappear in a haze of terror and violence! Can she survive to learn what’s happening?

THE ROATYER BEAST is the third chapter in the TOME OF MYSTERY series from Saltmine Green Young Adult Press. It continues the story of Tiller the Thief, Shielaine the Sorceress, and Maddie, the peasant girl drawn into their intrigue that began in LISTENERS AT THE HIDEOUT and MADDIE AND THE SCROLL. TOME OF MYSTERY is the first volume of the HESPERIN HOLY WARS. A young peasant girl finds herself caught up in an unlikely alliance with two brigands, and the three may hold the key to preventing the end of the world of Hesperin. Saltmine Green Young Adult Press presents only the finest fantasy, science fiction, and more for young adults. Look for new episodes of the HESPERIN HOLY WARS every Wednesday on Amazon.

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“What does it say?” The words came out with a tremor and Maddie realized she was shaking.
“It says, Maddie,” the elf said with wonder that seemed to belie everything about her matter of fact and knowing approach to all of the evenings events, “that you have just become the most important person on Hesperin, the key to its—”
Shards of wood suddenly shot through the air and a clattering roar sounded. Maddie turned to see a terrible…something stepping through the shattered front door. It looked like an insect of some kind, but it was an insect the way the Questor’s mount had been a wolf. It had pinching jaws like an ant and eyes filled with octagons below antennae the thickness of Maddie’s forearms. Its roar was like a screaming hog at the slaughter but louder and with a strange screeching and clicking mixed within. Horrified, Maddie cried out as it broke through the door.
Instantly, Shielaine was on her feet, and Maddie watched as light erupted from her hands, sending streams of bluish pulses toward the creature. Its cry grew shriller, and it turned on the elf, leaping forward and knocking her against the far wall. Shielaine winced but leapt up immediately and avoided a foreleg that shot forward like a spear and pierced the wall behind her.