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Welcome to the Massachusetts Community. Living under the nose of modern society, The Order of the Hawk is at war. The Order is a race of people chosen by the Great Hawk to help guide society and protect nature using their unique individual abilities and magic that allow them to read emotions. They once lived in peace until one woman chose the wrong man to love, thus making the witch trials The Order’s new reality. But when they didn't end as the world believes they did, The Order is left with only one goal: survive the brutal attacks from the Brethren of the Flaming Sword.

Having said goodbye to her old life, Haya’s real journey begins. But surviving in the snow capped mountains and wilds will test her in ways she couldn’t have prepared for. It’s not just the environment that could kill her though. The Skithian forces are out looking for her and she’ll have to contend with slave-trading marauders on the path too. Her foes are cunning, deadly, and numerous, but Haya has been honing her gift. And she’s now committed more than ever to her mission of saving Prince Shroding.

A girl with hidden powers. A trapped prince. War on the horizon. Seventeen-year-old Haya just wanted to help out on her family farm and maybe someday marry her best friend and secret crush. If not for the war raging between the nations of Shamar and Golan, it could have been a possibility. But when her family heads to war, she has to grow up fast and manage the farm herself. That’s not the only headache she has. There’s this mysterious cat that’s been hanging around the farm lately. And then there are the nightmares. In them she’s hunted by horrible monsters of black smoke.

A Shadow’s Lament is a raw and haunting collection of poetry that traces the journey through grief, abandonment, betrayal, and survival. Written for those who have loved and lost, for the ones who carry their pain quietly, and for anyone searching for meaning through the wreckage, these poems offer a voice to the unheard, a light in the shadows.