Well here we go again, another book promo.
This time it's the first instalment from a new series called The Skullborn Trilogy by Steven Montano (author of my favourite series, Blood Skies).
The trilogy is set in the fictional place of Malzaria.
Again we see Steven's ability to transport the reader to a world that is not like our own.
The world you end up in is a dark, struggling place that is still in bits after a bloody war....30 years before.
In part 1, City Of Scars, We find Azander Dane, a fallen knight haunted by the crimes of his past, now a mercenary he drifts from one city to the next. His latest job is to hunt down Ijanna Taivorkan, a powerful outlaw witch who is desperate to escape her destiny.
Azander and Ijanna are in Ebonmark, the City of Scars, where deadly crime guilds and shadowy agents of the White Dragon Empire prepare for a brutal confrontation. Pursued by apocalypse cults, mad alchemists, exiled giants and werewolf gangs, Dane and Ijanna soon learn a deadly lesson – in Ebonmark, only the cruelest and most cunning can survive.
Excerpt
The right-hand gate rose.
Dane and a hundred bloodthirsty gamblers waited for Maddox’s fighter to
appear, and when he did a collective cheer rose from all but Dane, who at that
moment realized those people truly were insane.
It was a giant – a twelve-foot tall black-fleshed brute
with knotted rune-carved muscles and fearsome white eyes. His bald head was lined with scars and the
muscles in his neck bulged as he twisted his fearsome visage from side to side to
take in the crowd.
The giant’s arms were as big around as a human’s torso,
and his hands were so massive Dane guessed he could easily take a stallion’s
head in his grip. Simple black armor
covered the giant’s lean body, but the creature’s midnight flesh was
darker. His tiny white eyes peered around
the room angrily, and when the creature opened his mouth his thick blunt teeth
shone in the dim light. The giant held a
gigantic war axe in his grip, and a thick silver collar had been fitted tightly
around his muscular throat.
It was a Voss, creatures who dwelled in enormous
underground cities and plotted the downfall and enslavement of all other races,
surface and subterranean alike. Despite
their size and ferocious appearance the Voss were known more for their cruelty
and cunning rather than their strength.
During the Rift War they’d acted as the Blood Queen’s engineers, and they’d
labored tirelessly to construct Veilcrafted war machines which had devastated
Jlantria and Den’nar. As impressive as
it was that a Voss had been captured and enslaved, Dane wanted to find this
Maddox and strangle him – bringing a giant into a human city was like walking a
lion through a field of lambs.
About the Author
Steven is the author
of Blood Skies, Black Scars, Soulrazor, Crown of Ash, The Witch’s Eye, Tales
of a Blood Earth 1 and 2 and something black…. He’s currently hard at work on Blood Angel
Rising, a horror novel; Chain of Shadows and Vampire Down, the
next two installments of the Blood Skies series; and Path of Bones and The
Black Tower, the remaining books of The Skullborn trilogy.
He lives in Washington
State with his wife, two children, a dog of below-average intelligence, and a
ridiculous number of books and bottles of wine.
Checkout Steven's website www.Bloodskies.com
Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DLXQXWW
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