Aislinn "Ash" Black  suffers physical and emotional abuse from her stepmother Morgana in silence. Finally, Ash manages to sneak out to reunite with her best friends Xue "Snow" Bai-Song and Alan Altin.

Ash hurries back home where she meets Charles "Charlie" De Lupa, the werewolf heir to the throne of the island nation Ash calls home.

Charlie offers to take her home and the two get to know each other. Charlie senses that she is being mistreated and, upon finding proof of the abuse, forces Ash to seek sanctuary in his home until Ash's father Bernard can return from an overseas business trip.

While on trial, Morgana warns of the impending deaths of Alonian children at the hands of Serena Briar the Black Witch who wishes to find and kill the seventh Time Wielder, Ash.

With a legacy to continue, trauma to overcome, and feelings to suppress, Ash is determined to bring Serena to justice and fix everything she destroyed.

Black: A Time Wielder Chronicle

Rose stood on the dais of the throne room taking in all the young Hunting Majors milling about in their uniforms. Trackers and surveillance in green and brown, and fighters in blue and black. She took an interest the ones whose weapons were in view.	Swords, guns, even a few lances and axes. 


	She never really understood why Alonians had a militaristic training program in their school, but no formal military. Although, according to history King Muraco wanted Alonia to be a paradise where magic users could feel safe from persecution, especially shifters. He didn’t want the country to be a place where people felt threatened. It was supposed to be paradise.


	Rose doubted Muraco had predicted the rise of Greencrest, The Lonisterian Civil War or the massacre in the Iotòn Kingdom. 


Times have changed and when it came to military might, the need for it had grown over the centuries.


Twenty-Five