The Lion

Speaker Origins: Book 1

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Wizards, Coming of Age, Sword & Sorcery, Fantasy Adventure, Historical, and Novels

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Profanity, Death, and Violence

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Jan 30, 2024

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The Lion

Speaker Origins: Book 1

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In the beginning, when the world is new, Jad the young shepherd meets his god, and his god is an idiot.

But before Jad can tell anyone, he and his friend, Tez, stumble across a soldier from a faraway land in the river, bleeding from a sword strike. He tells the boys that soldiers are coming to take their village, and kill anyone who resists.

Jad's father says they'll fight. Their god will protect them. The soldier says many gods have been fed to the expanding empire's terrible god eater, including his own. If only, he says, the village had a Speaker of magic—who Jad's father would deem a terrible heretic—only then might they be able to save their village.

And the soldier is looking directly at Jad.

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Genres

Wizards, Coming of Age, Sword & Sorcery, Fantasy Adventure, Historical, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Profanity, Death, and Violence

Type of Ending

Series

Speaker Origins — Book 1

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Publication Date

Jan 30, 2024

Page Length

153 pages

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Author

In 2011, Lee Burton won the Percy Janes First Novel Award in the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competition, and in 2017 was a finalist in The Writers of the Future contest. In 2023, he'll be publishing the first of his Speaker Series stories.

Lee Burton lives in St. John's, Newfoundland, where for the past ten years he has worked as a freelance editor with Ocean's Edge Editing, collaborating with numerous bestselling authors from across all genres of fiction. Though his stories are diverse, they all revel in the harmony of words, and celebrate imagination.