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Sneak Peek: Rise of the Drakyn

Today we have a sneak peek of author Leonard Little’s epic fantasy, Rise of the Drakyn

Marcus gets blood on an ancient amulet, alerting the Dark One that the dragon’s heir is still alive. The Dark One sends his drakyn—flesh-eating dragons— to pursue Marcus.

Home burned to ashes and Grandfather killed, Marcus runs with the drakyn a step behind. He joins scholar Ben, novice healer/dragon-mate Chelene, and her teacher/dragon Xan’Drake. Together they seek out ways to battle the rampaging evil. Betrayal gets all except Marcus captured, who is left for dead, buried alive beneath tons of gravel and rock. Will Marcus escape the grave or die, leaving his new friends to enemy’s tortures?

This book is available from Amazon.

Here is an excerpt from Rise of the Drakyn…

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Book Brief: Through Kestrel’s Eyes

Through Kestrel’s Eyes: Book Two of Earth’s Pendulum
by Yvonne Hertzberger
Genre: Old World, Epic Fantasy
Approximately 110,000 words

Through Kestrel’s Eyes, the sequel to Back From Chaos in the Earth’s Pendulum trilogy begins seventeen years later. The peace that followed the end of the Red Plague is shattered when the lords of Gharn and Leith are toppled by traitors, throwing the land into chaos.

Liannis, the goddess Earth’s seer, her apprenticeship interrupted by the death of her beloved mentor, must help restore the Balance. Until it is, Earth’s power is weakened, preventing Earth from sustaining the rains needed for good harvests. Drought and famine result.

Liannis battles self-doubt, the lure of forbidden romance and deep, personal loss as she faces tests that take her to the brink of her endurance.

But Earth sends a kestrel to befriend her that allows Liannis to ‘see’ with her eyes when her own do not tell her what she needs to know, and a vain, white horse to carry her, both with the ability to mind-speak.

The people with starve if Earth cannot heal from Chaos and the Balance cannot be restored. Time is short.

This book is available from Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes & Noble.

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Book Brief: Rise of the Drakyn

Rise of the Drakyn
by Leonard Little
Genre:Epic Fantasy
Word count: 88,717

Marcus gets blood on an ancient amulet,—the only keepsake he has from his mother who died when he was child—alerting the Dark One that the dragon’s heir is still alive. The Dark One sends his drakyn—nearly mindless flesh-eating dragons, hatched from the dead eggs of a dark queen—to pursue Marcus.

His home burned to ashes and Grandfather killed, Marcus sets off on his own with the drakyn only a step behind. He joins scholar Ben, novice healer/dragon-mate Chelene, and her teacher/dragon Xan’Drake.

Together they seek out ways to battle the rampaging evil that’s destroying the kingdom. Betrayal gets them all captured except Marcus, who is left for dead, buried alive beneath tons of gravel and rock. Will Marcus accept his destiny and escape the grave or will he die, leaving his new friends to the tortures of his enemy?

This book is available from Amazon.

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Featured Author: Ralph L. Angelo Jr.

Ralph L. Angelo Jr. has contributed to such magazines as Backroads Motorcycle Touring Magazine, and Motorcycle Consumer News among others. Ralph has written both fiction and nonfiction books, including Help! They’re All Out to Get Me! The Motorcyclists Guide to Surviving the Everyday World, and the upcoming Sword and Sorcery epic Torahg the Warrior-Sword of Vengeance. Ralph has a love of writing only equaled by his love of his other two great passions, motorcycling and skiing. Ralph lives with his family in suburban Long Island, NY. Redemption of the Sorcerer is his first novel.

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