The Tales of Zren Janin: An Alternate World Fantasy/Adventure Series by M.L. Dunker - Kindle Edition

Three strangers race across two countries with only one goal: to survive.

Badly beaten after a dance with Trouble, Red is found near the side of the road by West Islanders fleeing Kerek. Although they are strangers, Red knows two things: they must not learn who he is, and they must take him with them.

For the two West Islanders who find him, the stakes are just as high. There is a reward for their capture, and if any of the three are discovered for who they truly are, death will follow. Uneasy allies, they have one common goal: to reach Matasi and the sea.

Kerek, Matasi, and Vikland are three countries squabbling like quarrelsome siblings. The Kerek King has allowed banditry against anyone with a different language or skin color, and the Vikland Empress has had enough of her travelers injured and killed on Kerek’s Northern Track outside of her borders. Matasi has also suffered from Kerek’s brutality against those from other lands, but has the money and power—or so the Triune Council believes—to break Kerek without bloodshed.

In a war of words and weapons, who will win and who will lose? For when blood is shed, it is always the young and the poor who pay the greatest price.