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Three Steps Back: First Command (Twice Seven A Slave Book 1) Kindle Edition

4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings

IN A WORLD WHERE THE CHAINS OF HONOR ARE AS BINDING AS THE SHACKLES OF SLAVERY, A FIERCELY NOBLE SLAVE GIRL WILL DISCOVER THE TRUE PRICE OF FREEDOM.

Avinasi Lumadai lives a life of comfort and ease while traveling in the most adverse conditions on the continent with her master, an infamous bounty hunter with a mysterious past.

When a bounty is placed on her head, she and her master must travel back to their home kingdom to clear her name before an endless swarm of murderous reprobates comes looking to claim their reward.

But when a desperate man claims he knows her true identity, she must convince him she's the one he's searching for or risk incurring the wrath of the Empress and her armies.

In a world of compromise, lies, and deceit, can Avinasi remain true to herself and bring honor to her people? Or will she disobey her master and risk her own freedom to save those she holds most dear?

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CKJK351C
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ RFP Publishing (November 14, 2023)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 14, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4507 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 457 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B0CN44KZ8V
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings

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Michael Edmond
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Michael Edmond is a Christian, a husband and a father. He's worked as a coach, an English teacher, and a journalist. He earned his bachelor’s degree in film and video at Pennsylvania State University, where he focused on the art of screenwriting. Desiring to create expansive worlds and fantastical realms with virtuous but flawed characters with rich backstories, Edmond turned to writing novels and earned his master’s degree in creative writing.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2024
    Skmassen is a loner bent on revenge! Anisasi is loner of a girl. A joke goes bad, and she is almost whipped to death. He saves her, and she is enslaved to him. How it foes from there, is twisted, surprising you at every turn, and making his life miserable. Her determination and honor, drives her to do amazing things! I could not put it down!
  • Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2024
    I picked this up on Kindle Unlimited after reading a sample through a Facebook ad and I’m very glad I did. The characters were really interesting and complex, the dialogue was witty and hilarious at times, and the premise was very well executed.
    Things to be aware of: after a prologue that we still don’t have full context for by the end of the book, the book drops you right in media res with no backstory and the precise situation between the main characters only is revealed over time. I found the journey to get there very enjoyable though.
    Also, and more importantly, it is very clearly the first book in a series and the second hasn’t been written yet at the time of this review. So you’ll have to wait in agony along with me for more of Avinasi and Skamsen. I’d still go back and read it again for the first time even knowing I’ll have to wait. It’s that good.
  • Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2024
    Michael spins great stories. I like how the main character, while young, learns from her mistakes, finds deliverance an redemption. Looking forward to the next phase of Anivasti's life
  • Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2023
    This book is well written with interesting characters and action. Really all ages would enjoy this good book.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2023
    I must admit I am not a teenager by far, but totally loved this story, so much action and thrills it kept me turning pages late into the evening. Brilliantly done and a great story. Found on the Book Fight Club book blog and read with my Kindle Unlimited Subscription.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2024
    This book started out great, really exciting. Then the author jumps back to I am guessing a few years earlier. The female is 12. He is a grown man.
    He is some fabled bounty hunter named Skamson. He is saddled with this young girl as her penance to him as a slave as determined by her townsfolk and dad. Apparently she is not who she thinks she is, but that is not really being developed for most of the story, if ever. Most of the story has been their travels, the bounty hunter Skamson and Avinisi. The trouble I am having is she is 12 and she is doing all sorts of dangerous things without the permission of Skamson. Traipsing all over dangerous towns by herself!! So far, there has been much sexual innuendos about how a slave could please her owner, over and over that is the discussion. She is naive and innocent and has not a clue. Her bounty hunter owner, Skamson, is very embarrassed by the discussion . I can tell it is written by a male. Maybe intended for young male readers?
    At one point she accepts a dare and goes to find some cutthroat bad guy and his hoodlums in his liar. Once again disobeying her"Master" Skamson. She has local help finding him, She manages to trick them all....she is 12, she is beautiful and nobody messes with her. Other than the young thugs about her age. I almost stopped reading when somehow she managed to drag this unconscious, head hoodlum, bad guy out of his lair and onto a horse! How is that possible? She is 12, he was presumably, a big unconscious heavy muscular guy. Also, her protector, Skamson, is never around when these things a happen, or is he? He leaves her and continues on his way on his quest for next bounty to collect. There is lots of conversation and some adventure that kept me reading. Skamson appears to not care for her at all, she is a nuisance he would rather be rid of. It seems like he tries many times. Somehow she finds him! She is 12 yrs old.
    Another thing that really bothers me is the voice and language the author chooses to use for her.
    Apparently, she doesn't read or write. Yet, she talks very eloquently with the big words, she sounds like a educated noble girl. She was raised in a village where slaves are common. I wish she sounded like an uneducated child country girl who doesn't talk so noble and educated.
    I finally finished reading and...things didn't change. The whole rest of the story of book one is their travels to scary towns with scary bad guys and she is so fearless and does not listen to "her Master" at all. At the very end, the story switches back to where they were in the beginning where I presume she was older. Her true identity has been figured out ( also in the early chapters) and it just sorta ends with Skamson and Avinisi on a ship with the guy who found her and they are bound I think to meet the current queen. she has has accepted her identity. The ending was rather abrupt. Alluding to Book 2. I will not be reading book 2. This might be a great book for older male teens.
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