By Blood Bequeathed (Volume 1) 1st edition

Picked it up one night when I was having a hard time sleeping, and couldn't put it down. Instead of reading for a few minutes to calm my mind and get to sleep, I stayed up until 3:30 am so that I could finish it. ~ vmmvmmm
Miller's book has been crafted with careful thought and every word of the manuscript weighed in the balance . . . Chris has a sensuality in all his projects that resonates into the heart of human existence. ~ Christy Monson

I sat down to read the first chapter of "By Blood Bequeathed," and couldn't put it down until I'd finished. ~ Jennifer Moore

It's so hard to write high fantasy that sounds fresh, yet that's what BY BLOOD BEQUEATHED is. ~ Margot

I really enjoyed this book. I'd put it down and found myself picking it up again to keep reading. It was fast paced and exciting, and I was shocked when I was done. ~ Michelle

By birthright, Rayne Maellor is a noble. By choice, he is an outcast--having done all he can to extract himself from the indulgences of the aristocracy and their petty House skirmishes. Most of his twenty-eight years have been consumed by war, usually in fealty to the king. He longs for a more simple existence but his purpose in life is anything but simple. Rayne harbors a power linked directly to the soul of the Earth, one that informs and heals him. When the throne is vacated and an evil duke rises to power, Rayne takes up arms and forms a rebellion. He will fight for his family, the families of those the duke has hurt, and the land he calls home. 

Rayne and his aristocratic father-in-law Stellan, head of House Aerlect, have never seen eye-to-eye. In the midst of his militia's preparations, and with his wife, Aebigal, nine months pregnant, Rayne receives a death-bed prophecy from Stellan that will force him to confront bounty hunters, dark magic, and Mætok, a vindictive daemon. Rayne will have to rely upon the Earth's power in a way he has never done before, and something more, to protect his lands and the ones he loves.