Weekend Writing Warriors: Snippet 108- Anton

wewriwa2It’s time for Weekend Writing Warriors! Every Sunday, a bunch of writers post 8-10-sentence snippets from their WIPs on their blogs. There’s a lot of reading, commenting and great writing. Click on the link to see the full list.

I have a release date for Winter of the Wolf: November 18! It’s somewhat tentative, since my husband will have minor surgery at the beginning of the month, but I’m hoping that won’t throw me off track. The blurb is below the snippet.

Last week, Kendryk got into trouble, but Anton has rounded up reinforcements and is coming to the rescue.

Anton prayed they weren’t too late as he put the spurs to his horse. The enemy wanted to take Kendryk alive, but things could go wrong in a fight.

He looked back; now there were a good fifty troops at his back. Raising his saber, he shrieked at the top of his lungs, the way Karil had told him the Marjatyans did.

The enemy soldiers clustered around something on the ground didn’t see him until it was too late. Anton caught the first man across the throat, then pulled his saber free for another. The rest ran off quickly enough after that.

It had grown light, so it was easy to see the body on the ground was Kendryk’s. Anton’s breath caught, but he jumped down and hurried over to him.

“Thank the gods,” Kendryk grinned up at him, “help me get these ropes off.”

Previous snippets are here.

Blurb for Winter of the Wolf:

When all hope is lost, who will raise the banner of light?

War grinds on, spreading its shadow over all the land. In the wake of his overwhelming victory, King Lennart marches on the Empress Teodora, helpless and undefended in her capital. Though battered, Teodora is far from defeated, setting in motion a new plot which threatens to annihilate all of Lennart’s allies.

Unaware of the peril about to overtake him, Kendryk is torn between duty to his family and to his cause. While he struggles to recover from his loss, Anton joins Kendryk in his quest, but will be sent down another, more dangerous path.

Gwynneth has survived an attack by Teodora’s most unrelenting assassin, but she will soon face a test that threatens to destroy her.

Maryna, the heir to Terragand, travels to faraway lands hoping to provoke a confrontation with Teodora, but her journey takes an unexpectedly deadly turn.

Her ambitions magnified at the prospect of her mother’s downfall, Elektra must decide if she’s willing to pay the price needed to fulfill her destiny.

And even as Braeden triumphs over an enemy who has long threatened him, his next steps take him down a path that will lead to tragedy.

Faith and friendship are tested, alliances shattered, and a new generation rises in Winter of the Wolf, book four in the Desolate Empire series.

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30 Comments on “Weekend Writing Warriors: Snippet 108- Anton

  1. Wow, that’s just bad tactics for those soldiers–you don’t turn your back on everything else just because you have your target down. As Anton just so nicely demonstrated.

  2. You packed a lot in that small snippet, Christina. I thought for sure Kendryk was dead. Nice surprise ending.

  3. Hope the surgery goes well and the recovery is speedy. 🙂 And way to tease us about Kendryk’s outcome! Jeez. Go Anton! Also, I just read the blurb. Way to make me panic ahead of time! And of course I have the release date set on my calendar. Gimme all the feels! 😀

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