To Nurture & Kill (Ellderet Tales)

Gritty heroes, blood-soaked promises, and family bonds put to the test. Logan meets The Mandalorian in this "expansive, edgy" tale of love and loss. (Kirkus Reviews)

A promise imprisoned him. Betrayal will set him free.

Wandering mercenary Eutau Vidal promised his dying sister that he would care for her child—an infant with dark, dangerous powers. Will Eutau find meaning in the promise he made amid the ashes of war, or will he turn his back on the innocent?

To Nurture & Kill is a tale of love and loss, the story of one man’s search for meaning amid the ashes of war. It is a standalone prequel to The Deadbringer, the first book in The Ellderet Series

Author’s Note: To Nurture & Kill is a novella set about fifteen years before the events of The Deadbringer. Despite being a prequel of sorts, To Nurture & Kill can be enjoyed as a standalone story and requires no knowledge of prior works.

Full blurb: Eutau Vidal owed nothing to anyone and lived his life as he wanted. But then his sister died, leaving her newborn son Kira in his care, and everything changed. The Purging sweeps on, spreading misery across the Land of Moenda as the Ascendancy wages its war of extermination against the Deadbringers. Now, torn between a promise to his dying sister and the desire to regain his freedom, Eutau struggles to care for his young nephew even as the babe begins to manifest dark powers of the most dangerous kind.