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Description of  Race the Sands: A Novel

In this epic standalone fantasy, the acclaimed author of the Queens of Renthia series introduces an imaginative new world in which a pair of strong and determined women risk their lives battling injustice, corruption, and deadly enemies in their quest to become monster racing champions. Life, death, and rebirthin Becar, who you are in this life will determine your next life. Yet there is hopeyou can change your destiny with the choices you make. But for the darkest individuals, there is no redemption: you come back as a kehok, a monster, and are doomed to be a kehok for the rest of time. Unless you can win the Races. After a celebrated career as an elite kehok rider, Tamra became a professional trainer. Then a tragic accident shattered her confidence, damaged her reputation, and left her nearly broke. Now, she needs the prize money to prevent the local temple from taking her daughter away from her, and that means she must once again find a winning kehok . . . and a rider willing to trust her. Raia is desperate to get away from her domineering family and cruel fianc. As a kehok rider, she could earn enough to buy her freedom. But she needs a first-rate trainer. Impressed by the inexperienced young womans determination, Tamra hires Raia and pairs her with a strange new kehok with the potential to winif he can be tamed. But in this sport, if you forget youre riding on the back of a monster, you die. Tamra and Raia will work harder than they ever thought possible to win the deadly Becaran Racesand in the process, discover what makes this particular kehok so special.