Stuck at the very end of time.
If you love gritty dark fantasy, epic mythical battles, and
ancient gods interfering with mortals, you need to check out City at the Edge of Time by Janet and
Chris Morris!
City at the Edge of
Time
Sacred Band, #5
by Janet & Chris Morris
Genre: Epic Heroic Fantasy Adventure
"An exciting and brilliantly colored sortie . . ."
- David Drake
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A red
cloud rising out of the east was borne seaward on a hungry wind that howled
like a devil. It was a hot cloud, a wet cloud full of the promise of rain, and
yet it shed no drop on the forest below. It spread across the wilderness
without end, a cloud like a funnel, a cloud like a waterspout turned on its
side.
It crossed
the scorched earth between the forest and the city on the coast, low to the
ground and howling. Then it arched up like a striking snake, a hissing serpent
that ate the sky and reared high over the city’s walls.
By then no
one walked the city streets. Everywhere the city’s folk had fled indoors, even
from the courtyards of the king. No peltast stirred on the battlements; no
sentry held his ground. From within the walls of the palace, men peered out
through slits at the unnatural red storm.
Women held
each other in their boudoirs, and children sheltered under mothers’ skirts.
Noise went everywhere, carried on a wet and flailing wind that made hairs stand
up on arms and necks and dogs scramble under sturdy beds to whine.
Macon was in his father’s stables with his sister Tabet when the maelstrom started; and there he stayed, working with the grooms to calm the horses, lest one break a leg rearing and kicking. Among horses, as men, hysteria travels fast.
Don’t miss the
rest of the Sacred Band Series!
The Sacred Band of Stepsons series is Homeric and heroic
fiction following the exploits of an ancient cavalry unit modeled on the Sacred
Band of Thebes. Deftly mixing history, myth, and fantasy, Morris’ Sacred Band
of Stepsons live and die in a world where gods are real and magic works —
sometimes.
Morris’ accursed cavalry commander, Tempus, first
appeared Sacred Band first appeared in the million-selling Thieves’ world
shared-universe in 1981. Subsequently, Janet Morris, first alone and
subsequently with her husband Chris Morris, take the Sacred Band into their own
series of novels, set in the fourth century BCE. Passionate, gritty, lyrical
prose and unforgettable characters make this series. Perseid Press Sacred Band
novels includes the “Author’s Cut” of the Beyond Sanctuary Trilogy and Tempus, as
well as the epic novel The Sacred Band, and The Fish the Fighters and the
Song-girl.
Find them at Perseid Press
Best selling author Janet
Morris began writing in 1976 and published more than 30 novels, many
co-authored with her husband Chris Morris or others. Most of her fiction work
was in the fantasy and science fiction genres, although she also wrote
historical and other novels. Morris either wrote, contributed to, or edited
several book-length works of non-fiction, as well as papers and articles on
nonlethal weapons, developmental military technology and other defense and
national security topics.
Christopher Crosby Morris (born 1946) is an American author of fiction and non-fiction, as well as a lyricist, musical composer, and singer-songwriter. He is married to author Janet Morris. He is a defense policy and strategy analyst and a principal in M2 Technologies, Inc. He writes primarily as Chris Morris, but occasionally uses pseudonyms.
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