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*This Special Edition hardcover is printed on premium 70lb white paper and includes color maps of Theia and the Scarsands.
"Great for fans of: Steven Erikson, R. Scott Bakker" -BookLife Reviews
"A wonderful addition to the fantasy genre. It has action, emotion, magic and a cast of characters you immediately become attached to. It felt very grounded in reality despite being from another time and place."-Judge, 30th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards
"LIVELY AND SOPHISTICATED" -Kirkus Reviews
"This accomplished, ambitious epic fantasy swells with fresh ideas, memorable characters" -BookLife Reviews
RAW survival. Forbidden weaponry. A quest to save mankind turns into an experiment gone wrong.
In the disaster-ravaged land of Theia, Lumen Hadamard walks the line. He must enforce the anti-tech treaty barring old-world devilry, lest Theia follow the same path of destruction that shattered ancient civilization. Yet, he must prepare for a pending war, one his people are not equipped to fight. Hadamard needs more than traditional weaponry at his disposal, so he ventures into the treaty's "grey areas" - dabbling in mystifying forces not known to exist when the treaty was written. But it's risky: the space-rippling striker weapons are not well understood and, if in the wrong hands, could be a recipe for disaster.
Meanwhile, Hadamard's prized protégé, Vey Lancer, accepts a critical mission to Fort Abandon. Her talents of persuasion are needed to forge an alliance against a rival kingdom. But Vey has her own objectives in mind: time away from the crazed luminary with an eye towards romance involving the charming vice regent. But nothing ever goes as planned for the naïve diplomat. Her people have a long history of meddling and not everyone is happy with the way things turned out. A chance encounter with a vengeful old shaman sets Vey on a twisted path of darkness - abducted, drugged and fighting for raw survival.
Will Vey's mission allow Hadamard to work the kinks out of his prototypes before it's too late? Or will it spark an all-out war between neighboring territories? A war neither side can hope to win.
A dark, gritty EPIC FANTASY filled with intrigue and adventure.
"Tense and dense, crafted with a shrewd awareness of what dedicated genre readers expect-and of the pleasures of upending those expectations." -BookLife Reviews
About the author
K.B. Sprague is a Canadian epic fantasy writer and physicist.
Born in small-town Northern Ontario, he developed a true appreciation of the natural world during his youngest years. K.B. Sprague went on to attend universities in Southern Ontario, earning a doctorate in theoretical physics. Summer work terms still kept him grounded in the North though, spent working in a uranium mine and mineral prospecting camps. After graduating, he took on physics and computing research projects in the natural resources, defense, and security sectors. Topics varied widely, with excursions into nuclear and particle physics, medical imaging, directed energy, geomodelling, complex systems, war games, and emerging technologies.
K.B. Sprague lives on a hobby farm on the outskirts of Ottawa, Ontario with his wife and three children.
