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THE WINGSPAN OF TREASON is a third person multi-POV adult epic fantasy of 657 pages (excluding images) / approx. 245,000 words, and contains most of the final artwork planned for this edition. It is the first book of THE STURMSINGER CHAIN series. Due to printing costs, ARCs will be in eBook format unless a physical ARC has been previously discussed.
The provisional release date is early November 2024. There's really no obligation to complete reviews by the release date, but any reviews leading up to publication will be much appreciated.
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This is an adult novel. Sensitive themes include violence (infrequent reference to graphic violence), non-graphic reference to sexual assault, child death, familial trauma, war and displacement.
Book blurb:
Invelmar. A great kingdom boasting unrivalled peace and a brutal grip over the known world. A kingdom built with blood.
Former Invelmari prince Klaus surrendered everything to it. Now he’s fleeing a shattering betrayal and wondering why his parents want to kill him.
Neighbouring Derinda – a once-magnificent realm devastated by Invelmar’s damming of its mighty river – may offer Klaus a new life mapping distant roads. But feuding Derinda makes poor refuge for a fugitive mapmaker, and there’s no peace from his questions here. Questions about who his real family are. Questions about the sentient particles awakening in Derinda’s desert, intent on unearthing the devastating secret buried in its sands…
Because this desert wind is thick with poets and pirates, shamans and spaewives, and the answers are far worse than Klaus could have imagined. His loyalties to his beloved home are fast unravelling, and the desert clamours for a trial of Invelmar’s crimes. But can he separate vengeance from justice?
Does he even want to?
TRUTH IS A KNIFE. LOYALTY’S A CAGE. NO ONE IS INNOCENT.
