Book excerpt: The bottom line is this: the world of Terranum cannot survive without a soul. If the soul of our world is shattered, it has to make due with other sources.Like mortal souls. Young and inexperienced, Elaro of Agraxia is made captain of a journey with stakes of life and death for the whole world of Terranum: to prevent the endless winter that has plagued his land from taking over the rest of the world. To save the world, he and his companions must heal Terranum's soul by reuniting its shattered fragments. One of which is The Stone of Courage, a magic relic kept by the humans. But centuries' worth of bad blood between the Agraxians and the humans, Elaro must find a way to recover the human's soul fragment without succumbing to his greatest fear: becoming the monster the world believes him to be.