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Named By Love
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Midnightrose
Published: Jul 5 2024
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Is love worth the pain it may cost? Is there any escaping-?
Song is no longer allowed in the palace garden, where his feather-dragon friend, Furgo, used to play in the trees.
Freedom is beyond his dreams, for he was born to be the tool of his cruel father.
When a mysterious servant secretly visits him, offering him the chance to be with Furgo again, Song must choose to believe in freedom and face his fears, or he will break the hearts of those who care for him.
Yet to truly hope, to love friends who could be killed, is a terrifying step Song cannot make on his own.
A child traumatized by his fears; A man scarred by his past; An affectionate feather-dragon bonded to them both.
They must do what they can to make each other happy, facing hardships of hunger and cold as they seek refuge in the wilderness from all who would use them.
Author's Foreword
This is an emotional story about finding the meaning in freedom and friendship.
It is not an epic fantasy of heroic battles and victories.
Whether or not the characters involved will be part of saving or changing the world is irrelevant to this story.
This is a story about the emotional meaning in common place pleasures and sacrifices, in the hardships of hunger and cold that come with surviving in the wilderness. It is a story about finding meaning in the mundane things. It is a story about finding contentment in friendship, whether or not the world can ever be safe.
It is the love story about the rescue of one small child.
It could almost be a platonic romance, if we make the word romance into no more than a description of simple love, of desperate heartache, of the undefinable need to be with another and to make that other happy.
It is a story of found family from the perspective of a child who has no concept of family.
All intimate interactions in this story are either expressions of comfort and assurance, or practical actions of care.
All love expressed in this story is completely platonic.
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