HOW CAN HE STOP THE ULTIMATE ASSASSIN?
In the sixteenth year of its founding, the city-state of Wyverna teems with vitality, rife with crime, secrets, and sorcery. Like its namesake, the wyverns that hunt from the mountains above, Wyverna is a city of predators. Its pirates sail out to plunder the wealth of nations, while at home the capital seethes, an uneasy amalgam of the old ways of its anarchic peoples and the newly imposed rule of law.
The young noble Gorgo navigates these complexities with ease, until one night he learns of a plot to assassinate Wyverna’s legendary founder, the Warlord. The rebels have obtained a mighty relic: an ancient copper golem created to be the ultimate assassin. Invulnerable and relentless, the golem destroyed the civilization that birthed it. If it kills the Warlord, Gorgo realizes his city too will fall, ripped apart by civil war.
Armed with nothing but his wits and his courage, Gorgo sets out to find a way to save Wyverna. His mission will take him from the elegant casinos of downtown to the chaotic docks where smugglers prowl, from the hot sands of the arena to the cold midnight of magic-shadowed streets. But even he cannot foresee where his path will ultimately lead, and to what consequences.
RETURN TO WYVERNA – Book 2 available June 1, 2022
SCARRED BY THE MIND WITCH
Gorgo’s last adventure took him from sheltered noble to menial clerk in the city government, and left him scarred by his mental combat with the witch Wakár. Now the witch haunts his dreams, and he burns to hunt her down and end his torment.
Wakár preys on minds, slipping from body to body, hollowing out and discarding each in turn. She lurks somewhere in the underworld of Wyverna’s docks, enslaving criminals to her will and raising an army of thralls.
An unexpected friendship with the Warlord’s six-year-old son gives Gorgo his chance to find Wakár—but her minions are too strong, and Gorgo only puts his friends’ lives in danger. With everything on the line, Gorgo will have to face his fears and brave another perilous combat of the mind to free the city from her evil.