Featured Indie Book on Indie Author News: Epic Fantasy The Coming Storm by Valerie Douglas.
The Book has been self-published via Amazon KDP Select and is available as eBook (~708 pages / Re-released in May 2012).
The book The Coming Storm is for lovers of Epic Fantasy, not too dark - but very powerful.
About the Book
Elon of Aerilann, Elven advisor to the High King of Men, helped negotiate the treaty between Elves, Dwarves and men. He suddenly finds that fragile truce threatened from without by an unknown enemy and from within by old hatreds and prejudice.
With the aid of his true-friend Colath, the wizard Jareth and the Elven archer Jalila, he goes in search of the source of the threat. Ailith, the Heir to Riverford - fights her own silent battle. Her father has changed,something's wrong, but her quest to discover what has changed puts her life and very soul in danger and leaves her only one direction in which to turn.
To preserve the alliance, though, Elon may have to choose between his honor, his duty and the soul-bond he's awaited for centuries.
The mother bear had put up a terrible fight to save her cubs, as such will do when their young were threatened. All around the clearing the dirt was torn up, the underbrush crushed and the trees marked with blood and fur. It had been a valiant but futile effort on the part of the bear. Little remained of her and her offspring except for the blood, the shattered bones and a few traces of offal. They stank but not nearly as much as the reek of something else, something that chilled Elon's blood.
"Kobold," he said, quietly into the unnatural silence of the wood, mute testimony to the fact that the predators that had done this still remained somewhere near.
They hadn't reckoned on kobolds. Although there had been reports of something killing down here, they'd thought it was perhaps a young orc or a boggart. So far from the borderlands, it would've been more likely by far to be a rogue bear.
It wasn't the bear that had gone rogue.
Every sense was alert, his eyes as much on the destruction here as on the least twitch of a branch against the breeze.
Around him, the eyes of the other Hunters scanned everywhere, down in the shadows, up into the branches and all around. Bows were strung and arrows were notched against what they couldn't see.
"Aye," Colath said, kneeling in the dirt next to a particularly noxious heap of offal and scat. Looking up, he gave Elon a significant look. "More than one."
Elon looked closer, not that he had any doubts as to true-friend's assessment. The signs were unmistakable. The coldness in his belly spread. Colath, his true-friend, paxman and most trusted companion, was vulnerable down there. Especially to kobolds, who ran low to the ground.
"Kobolds don't travel in packs. Something's wrong here. Get back in the saddle, Colath, and quickly."
Reviews (Excerpts)
- "[...]The Coming Storm is an excellent read. I look forward to further adventures of these five heroes." - Donna K. Fitch
- "Very good story! The plot is well developed and fast moving with strong, well developed characters that are easy to identify with and yet complex. The battle scenes are intense, and the ending left me eager for more - both on the history of the world the author created and on what happens to the characters afterward. Well written epic fantasy in the middle earth tradition and definitely a must read! " - Drew Stevens
- "This was one of the best fantasy books I have ever read. This is Lord of the Rings'ish but without so much of the darkness of that book. I don't put five stars on a book lightly - but here it is [...]" - Bobby (Amazon)
About the Author
A fan of authors from almost every genre from Isaac Asimov to Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, she writes classic fantasy, romance, suspense, and as V.J. Devereaux, erotic romance.
Who knows what will pop up down the road!
Happily married, she's companion to two dogs, four cats and an African clawed frog named Hopper who delights in tormenting the cats from his tank.
Links to the Author and the Book
Link to Valerie Douglas's Website
Connect with Valerie Douglas via Twitter @ValerieDouglasA
Link to the Book The Coming Storm with Excerpt on Amazon
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