Project and Title Reveal

 

Today I'm super excited to finally be revealing one of my projects I've been cooking up in secret.

It's another story set in Ruskhazar (we're at like 25 books set in this world now). But I can't help it, there's just so much going on in Ruskhazar during the third era and every time I turn around, I find another story. But don't worry the connections between each individual series and standalones in this world are loose and each series can be read separately. So, you won't have to read all 25 books just to make sense of one.

This one is the first book in a duology, as I stated last week, I'll actually be doing something different with releasing this book. Before I publish it, I'll actually put out each chapter in episodic format through Kindle Vella. I'm pretty excited to try out this new platform. Since I'm such a novice when it comes to Kindle Vella, I don't actually know all of the details such as when I'll start releasing chapters except that it will be sometime next year in 2023. I also don't know when I'll publish the full book, but it probably won't be until book two releases on Kindle Vella as well (so maybe late 2024 or sometime in 2025).

All I know is that it will be available in Kindle Vella next year.

The story is about Victor Andreev, a character who you are actually going to meet very briefly in Rage Like the Gods. He's a guard aboard the prison transport ship my main characters all find themselves on at the beginning of the book. The one that got sunk by a kraken. In the chaos of the kraken attack and the prisoners all trying to escape, Victor gets unalived by one of the prisoners aboard the ship.

 I don't want to call anyone out but um, yeah, it was this girl right here. >>>>>>>

I never said my protagonists from RLtG were saints, in fact, I distinctly remember calling them disaster children. So, yeah, Dagmy killed Victor. It was very rude of her.

Except that wasn't the end for Victor, because while his soul is drifting off to Skyhold, he hears a disembodied voice offering to give him a second chance at life. All he needs to do is agree to be this person's vessel.

Victor agrees, which was probably a bad move on his part, but in his defense, he had been sort of out of it. Anyway, he finds himself revived by the demigod Likho, patron of dark fates and sudden deaths, a being that has been dead itself for the past thousand years, hence him needing a vessel to do anything on the mortal plain.

Victor quickly learns that partnering with powerful and malevolent beings was a bad idea, but it's too late to do anything about it now. Fighting against madness that threatens to punish him for his huberis and struggling against becoming a pawn of the half-deity in his head, Victor makes his way through Ruskhazar, trying to find his sister so he can tell her he isn't actually dead. All the while he must avoid people who would have him killed for the heresy of dealing with demigods. On his journey he meets a sibling duo who are in a desperate need for a second chance, with their own dark past when it comes to demigods, and a grandmotherly figure who also made a deal with Likho to cheat death.

Oh yeah, and there's a dragon that just came back from the dead. And it's cranky.

Basically, it's the story of a lot of sorcerers and a lot of undead people running around causing chaos while two really unlucky siblings just throw some flames in the fire thinking they will be helping. So in other words, it will be chaos. And certainly, one of my darker stories considering my main character is lowkey possessed and highkey a revived corpse.

The Title...

Did any of you guys guess it correctly?

The Aesthetics...

About...

He’s already died once

She thinks he just might be her second chance.

This is why you shouldn’t bargain with malevolent beings.

 

Victor Andreev doesn’t remember much about how he died. What he does remember is agreeing to serve a powerful entity to cheat his death. Now granted a second chance and bound to the demigod patron of dark fates and sudden deaths, Victor wonders if he made the right choice. There is a reason that dealing with demigods is illegal…

Bronwyn and her brother have spent their whole lives running from their pasts. Now graduated from the Academy, they set out to claim a new life for themselves as Magickers. But the past has always had a tricky way of catching up with them.

When Victor and these siblings meet, they join forces to survive in a world where nothing dead remains that way for long. The whole world is crumbling, the end is nearing, and nothing is what it seems. Certainly not Victor who finds himself slowly descending into a madness meant to punish him for his hubris. But that is preferable to when the demigod takes full control. Sorcery and magic were never supposed to meet. And soon Victor and Bronwyn find themselves wondering how much longer they can continue to cheat fate… or if they are doomed no matter what they do.

Welcome to Ruskhazar, a land threatened by dark magics, dragon fires, and waking dead. If you like anti-heroes, slow burn sizzling romance, and kick-butt heroines then you won’t want to miss this high fantasy series that is perfect for fans of Michael J. Sullivan and J.R.R. Tolkien.

I already have the cover for this bad boy. Mark your calendars. I'll be revealing it on October 3rd.