CALL THE FIRE, Scatterlings of Fate, Book One

323pp., paperback, Mirari Press, Cape Town, 2026

ISBN: 9781067195502

When a captured warlock dies whispering of ancient relics and a rising power, Conn is sent beyond the empire’s borders to stop a threat that should not exist. Instead, he finds Garyn who, enslaved and torn from everything he loves, carries a secret in his bloodline.

Nerine Dorman is the author of the fantasy novel The Company of Birds and the lead author of the Winter Mage series. Her YA novel Sing Down the Stars won the 2019 Sanlam prize for Youth Literature and the 2021 Percy Fitzpatrick Award for Children's and Youth Literature).