Ignifer’s War

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Ignifer’s War is an epic fantasy novel set in a bleak industrial world populated by bizarre castes, where a young man with the fate of the world written in his scars must raise a long-dead legendary army to rescue his swallowed world from the throat of an apocalypse god. It is book #2 in the Ignifer Cycle, available in ebook formats here: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Amazon CA – Kobo – Google Play Story: The corpse world is destroyed. The Rot is triumphant. Nothing at all is left. But something is. A lone figure watched the apocalypse from …

Ignifer’s Rise – chapter 1

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ARADABAR LOST Avia fled through the ash-smothered streets of Aradabar, and the Rot’s fiery black tongue swept close behind. Moths and Butterflies thudded to ground around her, bursting on cobbled stone, their broad wings seared away by the Rot’s ashen touch. Through breaks in the city’s skyline of library towers she glimpsed the column of flame rising from the horizon, like a brilliant orange flower painted on the sky. The mountain was erupting; one last defense against the Rot, and soon the great city of Aradabar would be gone. Screams rang out from behind her, but there was nothing she …