Defiant

A plague is sweeping throughout Avalon. Clancy Donovan’s sister has died and now her brother is sick too. Official word is that a cure is on its way, but they’re lying and Clancy knows it.

To find an antidote someone must travel into enemy territory—an act forbidden by the Queen herself. As future chief of her clan, Clancy has vowed on pain of death, to obey the laws of Avalon and uphold her family’s code of honour. Now, to save her brother she must break that promise, disobey the Queen as well as the laws of Avalon and risk losing the chieftainship. Clancy must become, defiant.

Author Biography

Valerie Francis has been writing her entire life and completed her first book at the age of seven. She now works as indie author and runs Bocereas Press, her independent publishing company. Prior to establishing Bocereas Press, she worked in the field of media and corporate communications for twenty years. As part of that career, she worked for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and it was there that the idea for the Nature Knights series was born. When she saw a photo of a turtle that had died because of plastic garbage it ingested, she wondered what would happen if nature could fight back. That evening she began writing the Nature Knights series.