The Sorcerer's Chain (fantasy novel, available from Amazon.com)
The city of Fenward, perpetually storm-
blasted on the edge of the Great Salt
Desert, passes into a season of curses. It
begins as a wandering blacksmith arrives
out of the sea of dunes. The only work he
will take on is the forging of chains, woven
into a web-work remarkably like a map of
the city; this he carefully cuts apart like
slow torture as Fenward devolves into
carnivals of violence and rebellion. No
sword-girt hero arises to end the storm, so
who else is left to handle the mystery of
the hammer-wielding sorcerer except
Fenward’s beggars led by Tenna the Blind,
with their ancient tradition of solving
riddles and their strange game called
chlab?
But no rest for Fenward as the second
curse begins work, this time not through
an external entity but now a monster taking
shape from the city’s own chain of sorrow
and guilt -- it slips through the cracks
between bricks, the street paths, the gaps
between cobblestones to reach and slay.
Rilla, the young prophetess whose home is
the hard stone chair in the Square of Truth,
and her unlikely ally, a broken, cynical
soldier, will have to pool their strength to
cut the final links of the curses. Their way
leads to a shunned house whose history no
one can quite recall, like a crime that has
been willingly erased from memory.
blasted on the edge of the Great Salt
Desert, passes into a season of curses. It
begins as a wandering blacksmith arrives
out of the sea of dunes. The only work he
will take on is the forging of chains, woven
into a web-work remarkably like a map of
the city; this he carefully cuts apart like
slow torture as Fenward devolves into
carnivals of violence and rebellion. No
sword-girt hero arises to end the storm, so
who else is left to handle the mystery of
the hammer-wielding sorcerer except
Fenward’s beggars led by Tenna the Blind,
with their ancient tradition of solving
riddles and their strange game called
chlab?
But no rest for Fenward as the second
curse begins work, this time not through
an external entity but now a monster taking
shape from the city’s own chain of sorrow
and guilt -- it slips through the cracks
between bricks, the street paths, the gaps
between cobblestones to reach and slay.
Rilla, the young prophetess whose home is
the hard stone chair in the Square of Truth,
and her unlikely ally, a broken, cynical
soldier, will have to pool their strength to
cut the final links of the curses. Their way
leads to a shunned house whose history no
one can quite recall, like a crime that has
been willingly erased from memory.
| ISBN 978-0-9794770-2-7 Order through Amazon.com or other online booksellers Published by Fine Tooth Press www.finetoothpress.com (Not a vanity press: Fine Tooth Press offers authors whose manuscripts are accepted a standard royalties contract) |
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