Bryte's Ascent: An Arucadi Novel

Thirteen-year-old Bryte, poor and homeless, lives under a bridge in the flats that surround Tirbat, the seven-tiered capital city of Arucadi. To her, that's the bottom of the world. She's determined to find a way to rise. Her goal is to live on Tirbat's fifth tier, home of the wealthy father who rejected her mother and refuses to acknowledge her. But how can she possibly accomplish that goal when she endures such a hardscrabble existence?

The answer comes and her ascent begins when Bryte encounters a young man and woman newly arrived in Tirbat. Magically gifted, they reveal to her an exciting but dangerous new world. She is soon on her way up.

Or is she?

Read Bryte's Ascent, and discover along with Bryte the ups and downs of getting ahead in a difficult world.