Seasons of August — Anna Alexander

For centuries humans and mages lived together in peace and prosperity across the kingdom of Midoria. Then the Ravage came, a sickness that imbued mage-like powers to humans that upset the balance of nature. The once proud race of mages, the direkind, were blamed for the illness and either fled or were killed as fires raged and the earth shook. Thousands were killed, including the king, leaving a young prince to rebuild the kingdom.Several years passed. The king, now a man, was leading his people back to its former glory when an earthquake shakes the kingdom once again, igniting forgotten terrors. The king bids his most trusted knights to scour the countryside and find all remaining direkind and rid them off the earth for good. The loyal knights obey. Except one. One brave knight will defy his king to protect people he has never met. People who he wasn't sure still existed. One knight who knows that by embarking on his chosen mission he will change the fate of the realm forever.