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The Monk and The Druid: A series

Melithes grew up listening to her mother tell stories of the druids. These stories were the most exciting parts of Melithes’s life in her home deep in the forest. After her mother passed Melithe wanders closer to civilization than she ever has before and is captured by a group of hooded men of ill intent. Now the slave to a necromancer named Richard, Melithes must try to remove the magical collar that prevents her escape and keep her head low. It is a challenge since the Hooded Men are convinced she’s a druid from her mother’s stories.

Melithes finds companionship with the other slave, a mysterious blood elf  drifter named Pelian. A monk and master of bare-handed combat, Pelian is charming, mysterious and wise. Exactly the person Melithes needs to anchor her as her sudden druidic abilities threaten to overwhelm her. Pelian doesn’t mean to become attached but after a daring escape, a trek all over the eastern kingdoms, and hijacking a zeppling together, Melithes is the only thing that reminds him of a home. Together they must return to Quel’thalas to, master Melithes growing power, and try to save their friends and avoid the growing attraction between them.

Three decades have passed since the events of the third book and Melithas is living in moonglade under the watchful eyes of her Shan’do. Plagued by nightmares as she sleeps, she struggles to prove she is no longer a threat and fears she has traded one form of slavery for another. Her relationship with Pelian, now a guard in SIlvermoon, is failing.

Having never confessed their attraction for one another the relationship fractures.

Adrift, Melithas must return to Quel’thalas if she is to have any chance at reversing her dangerous  and quickening descent into madness. There she hopes to find the truth behind her family’s buried past and salvage her relationship with Pelian. What she finds in the Ghostlands will put both of their allegiances to the test.