Title Of Book: The Roar of the Lost Horizon Series: Southern Echo Book 1 By: KN Salustro Genre: Fantasy Sub-Genre: Epic Fantasy, Action/Adventure, Coming of Age
Blurb:
An Unusual Skill
All his life, Nate has dreamed of using his wind magic as a sailor in the imperial navy. By law, all Skilled must serve the Solkyrian Empire with their magic, and it’s a fate that Nate willingly embraces. Unfortunately, while Nate’s Skill makes him highly sensitive to the element, it’s not strong enough for him to control the wind, and his dreams of serving in the navy unravel. Disgraced, Nate is forced to resign himself to an unwanted fate, but that changes when he meets pirate captain Iris Arani.
A Legendary Treasure
After learning of Nate’s Skill, Captain Arani invites him to join her crew and carve out a new life free from the empire. But Arani wants Nate’s help finding something that only his magic can track down. Something so steeped in legend, Arani will need to risk the trust of her crew and her captainship to get it.
An Epic Adventure
As part of Arani’s crew, Nate will learn to use his Skill in ways he never thought possible. He hopes that will be enough to secure him the life he’s always dreamed of, if he can survive long enough to return home. But danger is everywhere on the high seas, even for a ship full of pirates, and Nate must learn to harness his true magic before Arani steers her ship and her crew into the heart of it all.
What People Are Saying:
5 Stars – “Enthralling Pirate Fantasy, Interesting characters, and a world we’ve only just begun to learn about.”
5 Stars – “A really good genre-blending fantasy book is hard come by… found one!”
5 Stars – “Story flows smoothly from beginning to end and brings the reader along flawlessly.”
5 Stars – “Unique take on pirates and great characters.”
K.N. SALUSTRO is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author who loves outer space, dragons, and stories that include at least one of those things. When not writing or working at her day job, she runs an Etsy shop as a plush maker and makes art for her Redbubble shop, both under the name DragonsByKris. (She is serious about being a dragon fan.)
Her science fiction trilogy The Star Hunters was nominated for the Cygnus Awards, with each book in the trilogy receiving its own accolades. Chasing Shadows, the first book in the trilogy and K.N. Salustro’s debut novel, was a quarter-finalist in the 2018 Screencraft Cinematic Book Contest, and won a silver medal in the 2019 Readers Favorite book awards. Light Runner (the third book of the series) received an honorable mention in the Global eBook Awards. Cause of Death: ???, her first fantasy book, won the Fantasy category in the 2021 IndieReader Discovery Awards.
Bring Black Sleeve to Life!
The First Book of a New Flintlock Fantasy Series
The Book
Black Sleeve is a gun-slinging magical adventure novel set in Balor – where magic is outlawed, the Guardians are corrupt, and an insidious evil resides under a mask of compassion.
Follow Gammon’s journey – once an elite Hunter and member of the Green Sleeves, Gammon has fallen into the shame and exile of being marked a Black Sleeve. Gammon finds himself in an unlikely alliance among the often treacherous lot of criminal and severed folk to embark on a quest to reclaim his life and love in defiance of the other Sleeves of Malar who have punished him.
Gammon comes face-to-face with a far greater threat than the Politicians or Philosophers of Balor could have imagined! All Balor is in danger, from the ingenuity of the Bathmore rifles to the sophistication of the Pantheon of Malar.
Title Of Book: Wind of Choice Series: Unexpected Heroes Book 1 By: Marty C Lee Genre: Fantasy Sub-Genre: High Fantasy, Action/Adventure, Coming of Age
Blurb:
Desperate to escape his fate…
…winged Ahjin strikes a bargain with his god.
But is his freedom worth the cost?
All sixteen-year-old Ahjin wants is to be a skydancer, but the god he doesn’t believe in has other plans. Assigned to be a priest, he runs away before his initiation.
But when his god is kidnapped and asks for help, Ahjin sees an opportunity for blackmail. In exchange for his own freedom, he’ll find and rescue the god from the mysterious force that’s somehow powerful enough to restrain the deity.
How hard could it be?
What Ahjin doesn’t know is that all the gods have disappeared. Suddenly, there’s more at stake than his own dreams. Without the gods’ care, the elements will destroy the world.
Aided by the gilled islander, fire mage, and shapeshifting healer he meets on the way, Ahjin races against escalating disasters. But can he save the world from shattering?
What People Are Saying:
5 Stars – “The pace is quick and keeps the reader wondering how everything can possibly work out.”
5 Stars – “The story is beautifully built and doesn’t pull any punches.”
5 Stars – “Each new character adds depth and scope to the story, each new land enriches the world-building, and each new twist amazes.”
5 Stars – “Action-packed adventure with unique heroes.”
Marty C. Lee told stories for most of her life, but never took them seriously until her daughter asked her to write the first in the Unexpected Heroes series. Her characters take over her brain on a regular basis. If you catch her muttering to thin air, she’s probably arguing with one of her characters.
Bring Black Sleeve to Life!
The First Book of a New Flintlock Fantasy Series
The Book
Black Sleeve is a gun-slinging magical adventure novel set in Balor – where magic is outlawed, the Guardians are corrupt, and an insidious evil resides under a mask of compassion.
Follow Gammon’s journey – once an elite Hunter and member of the Green Sleeves, Gammon has fallen into the shame and exile of being marked a Black Sleeve. Gammon finds himself in an unlikely alliance among the often treacherous lot of criminal and severed folk to embark on a quest to reclaim his life and love in defiance of the other Sleeves of Malar who have punished him.
Gammon comes face-to-face with a far greater threat than the Politicians or Philosophers of Balor could have imagined! All Balor is in danger, from the ingenuity of the Bathmore rifles to the sophistication of the Pantheon of Malar.