Melaan: To Save a Barony

After the Paladium Empire's collapse a hundred years ago, Melaan's remaining societies struggle to survive as eclipses increase in frequency and goblin-kind attack ravenously.  Arty leads a small party to beg the Barony of Bremer for protection against an imminent attack on her struggling hometown of Moonville.  When she arrives she finds disappointment, insult, and injury, but she doesn't give up. The Man in the Scarlet Sash, leading a hobgoblin army, derails her quest time and time again.  But Arty painfully learns key information and must make an impossible choice.  She gambles everything and leads her party in the most unexpected direction to both wreak havoc among the enemy and gain the respect of a new ally, all for Moonville. Arty takes up where she left off in book 1, "e;Melaan:  To Save a Town"e;, struggling with her self confidence as a leader, learning more about her unexplained abilities, reuniting with some old friends whose support is direly needed, learning from her failures to make herself a better leader, and smashing monsters to smithereens! But will she gain the respect of her difficult party?  The barony?  Will she take the fight to the aggressor?  Which one?  How?  Will she secure protection for Moonville? Let's find out in this commercial fiction, low medieval fantasy novel of approximately 65,000 words.