THE PROPHET’S STAR
Realm of the Prophets #3
Five years have passed, since the people of Arbash founded their new home out on the desert sands. Five years of challenges and dreams, which led the former citizens to a prosperous new life. And My'ala - a Prophet, a leader, and now a young mother - stands at the centre of it all, grateful for everything that has come to pass.
Wondering: what are we, and what does the future hold?
The question is one that she's never found an answer to, and is reflected in the inquisitive eyes of her young daughter, wrangling with her own place in the world. It's a question that takes My'ala on a journey of self-reflection, out across the dunes afar, where she happens upon a great beast of the Unknown with scaly skin and shimmering fire.
Their name is Nehebu the Sand-King, the dragon Prophet of ancient times, and they come with an offer to help her find answers.
And a terrible warning of what is to come...
“A dwelling is not built without a cornerstone… why do anything, if at first you have not understood what it means to ‘do’ at all?”
This book came at a point in my life where I needed it most: as with its predecessors, the questions that I explored and answered in its pages were questions I was wrestling with on my day-to-day, too. This book is heart-breaking and hopeful, with echoes of family, faith, duty and love threaded throughout. It finishes a trilogy that has had such an important place in my life - and will be one that I remember fondly, for many, many years to come.