Child of Vanris by Nikki McCormack
At five years old, Kasiel was found with the pointed ends of his ears cut off. Despite that brutal start, he’s lived twelve peaceful years with the man who took him in. Keeping his hair long over his mutilated ears helps him hide the fact that he is Vanrian, a child of the enemy.
Everything changes when mercenaries arrive hunting for him. The last people he expects to come to his rescue are Vanrian soldiers, one of whom claims to be his spirit brother. They plan to take him across the war zone to deliver him to his real father, a man whose name strikes terror in his enemies.
With his secret exposed, Kasiel can’t go home. This is his chance to find out who he was supposed to be. It means traveling to a foreign land where they have psychic abilities he never knew existed. It also means leaving behind everything he’s ever cared about. To survive, he will need to learn a new language and culture and become a soldier in their war.
Meanwhile, the man who cut Kasiel’s ears will do anything to keep him out of his true father’s hands, even if it means killing him.
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Author Bio:
Outside of my career as an author, I am a professional technical and creative writer, spider wrangler, animal lover, and devoted cat mom. Writing fantasy and science fiction stories has been a lifelong passion for me. I love to draw on my myriad life experiences, doing everything from wild cave exploration and competitive horseback endurance riding to practicing iaido and archery. I invites you to join her on some fantastic adventures.
2025 Finalist (4th place overall) in the Book Blogger Novel of the Year Awards (BBNYA) for Child of Vanris.
2025 Finalist for the Ozma Fantasy Fiction Award for Child of Vanris.
2018 Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards for The Keeper
2016 Finalist for the Cygnus Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Award for Dissident
2015 Grand Prize Winner of the Dante Rossetti Award for Young Adult Fiction for The Girl and the Clockwork Cat
2009 Writers of the Future semi-finalist with the short story In Silence Waiting.
NOTE: No generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been or will be used in any part of the creation of my books.