A couple of new books from blogger buddies this time around! Have some news you want to share? Drop me a line!
The Maze of Mist, the latest fantasy novel from
A.J. Walker, is for sale in the Kindle store. For the first
month he's priced it at only $3.99, and it's free for Prime members.
Here's the blurb:
When the heir to the throne is treated as an outcast, he has to prove himself before he can rule.
Prince
Metis Itxaron is the son of a human father and a goblin mother. As heir
to the Twin Thrones, he will some day bear the responsibility of ruling
two peoples while protecting the kingdom from the vicious armies of the
Bandit Queen and the Elves of the Great Forest.
Instead he spends his time getting drunk and sleeping with the few women willing to look beyond his mixed heritage.
In
a desperate attempt to make a man out of him, his parents send him on a
secret diplomatic mission to prepare for an upcoming war. What they
don't expect is that he will come upon visitors from an unknown land
beyond the Sea of Mist, a strange labyrinth of fog that has baffled
navigators for all of recorded history.
Metis sees a visit to these new lands as an opportunity to escape his responsibilities and prove himself on his own terms.
Then he discovers that representatives from his kingdom's enemies are coming along for the voyage. . .
This is the second book in the
Chronicles of the House of Itxaron series. The first volume is
Roots Run Deep. While set in the same world, each title is a standalone novel.
Missouri historian
Larry Wood also has a new book out.
Murder and Mayhem in Missouri tells the story of some of Missouri's toughest outlaws.
Desperadoes like Frank and Jesse James earned Missouri the nickname of the "Outlaw State" after the Civil War, and that reputation followed the region into the Prohibition era through the feverish criminal activity of Bonnie and Clyde, the Barkers and Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd.
Duck into the Slicker War of the 1840s, a vigilante movement that devolved into a lingering feud in which the two sides sometimes meted out whippings, called slickings, on each other. Or witness the Kansas City Massacre of 1933, a shootout between law enforcement officers and criminal gang members who were trying to free Frank Nash, a notorious gang leader being escorted to federal prison.
