Book One of the ""A Fox's Tale"" Series. Ten years ago, the most powerful Lord of the Northern Nations died at the hands of a woman known only as the Fox. Marcus Minev, a chronicler from the nation of Ossetia has set out to find the legendary figure. What he finds is a young woman with a story of loss, hardened by her life, living in the small town of Vulpindel. It was then that he learned the truth, straight from the woman's mouth. Ember WUlf, the girl that would eventually be known as the Fox, her journey began as nothing more than a scared girl with a gift for magic. Then she was known by another name. She was the Warden's Daughter. Ember tells the start of her story, of how she was captured by Rodric the Raven, a Knight of the Order of the Dragon under Lord Drake, as a teenager, and her escape with the help of Johnathan Silber, an apprentice blacksmith and fellow magical talent. Marcus is left with a puzzle which he has only been given the first handful of pieces for. How could the lively teen from the story become the legendary Fox have turned into the brusque hard woman of the present day? Marcus soon realizes there is a great deal more to the woman's tale then he previously thought. 55,000 words, Rated T (Suitable for teens, 13 years and older, with some violence, minor coarse language, and minor suggestive adult themes.)