The Riven Gate. Spells of Earth

Desora travels with Captain Brax, his guards, and the rangers to the palace of Horst. Lord Horst, a Dark Fae, rules the northern Wilding. Alliance with him offers the only chance to defeat the eldritch monster attacking innocent creatures of his forest. Yet more than the monster threatens them. Sorcery and magical predators lurk in the forest, waiting to snare them. Desora's elemental Earth is one of the few defenses against the monster.
She struggles to discover greater depths to that power. Her broken memory still blocks her. Bloody fate balances death on one scale, destruction on the other. Will she survive her next battle against this monster? *** The fantasy The Riven Gate is the second novella in the three-part series Spells of Earth, part of the greater Fae Mark'd World. The series began with The Wyrded Forest and concludes with The Mysts of Sorcery. If you like elemental power battling twisted sorcery and cold steel clearing paths through magical monsters, then you will love the adventures in The Riven Gate. Writer Remi Black has loved creating magical worlds since a teenager, when she read a much-battered paperback in the Witch World saga by Andre Norton, the Grand Mistress of Fantasy.
She writes determined heroines and strong heroes, both with internal conflicts as dire as the sorcerers and monsters that confront them. Look for the Fae Mark'd Wizard series with Alstera, banished when she delved a little too closely into sorcery. First in that series is Weave a Wizardry Web. Remi's first series set in the Wilding is Spells of Air. The young wizard Orielle encounters the proud Dark Fae Lord Skull and Lady Bone as well as a pack of shifted wyre enslaved by a sorceress.
The opening book in that trilogy is To Wield the Wind.