A Little Magic Inside
Covenants (Borderlands, volume 1)
By Lorna Freeman
26 Sep, 2024
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2004’s Covenants is the first volume in Lorna Freeman’s Borderlands secondary-universe fantasy series. Covenants is not a mystery, but on researching its author, I discovered that the author is a bit of a mystery.
Freston is the border outpost to which the Royal Army of Iversterre dispatches all those soldiers who do not fit the army mold, but who cannot be summarily dismissed or executed. Rabbit is one such, raised in the Borderlands by Iversterre expats, a man who dresses as well as he can under the circumstances and is considered finicky, who nevertheless has considerable woodcraft skills.
Or so everyone, including Rabbit, assumes. But currently Rabbit and the routine patrol for whom he scouts are hopelessly lost. Help arrives in an unwelcome form.