A mage apprentice and her grasp… Against 3 hundred mercenaries sieging a city.Seventeen-year-old mage apprentice Rielle accompanies her expert, Leigh, on the mission to save a viscount from a city less than mercenary control. But mercenaries aren’t the just newcomers to town. When the mission goes awry, Rielle must choose whether to follow her purchases or her conscience.Enthusiasts of Throne of Glass and the Valdemar series will definitely enjoy this sword-and-sorcery short story, a prequel to the intimate epic-fantasy series Blade and Rose.Pay attention to “Winter Wren” today and dive right into a medieval world sensual and dark, full of magic and greed, love and blades, where factions vie for influence and you will find no easy choices…