Tizbeth In The Path Here

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The Path Here is a 60000 word fantasy novel in the molds of Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching novels. While the main character is a bit older than a standard coming of age story, it is the story of person finding her own place. This would fit on the shelf, wedge between fantasy and coming- of age stories. Tizbeth, the main character in The Path Here, has done everything she should to be a good Sorfia, an elf-like magical creature, and if that what she has is all she can get, it will be a long life.
Until an unexcepted trip into the human village show her a life and man that made her life ring hollow. An exile offers to change her into a human in exchange for Tizbeth fetching a magical talisman. As magically week as she is the odds of

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