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July 2014
On Sale: July 1, 2014
Featuring: Elisha Magus
334 pages
ISBN: 0756409268
EAN: 9780756409265
Kindle: B00G3L6K72
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Fantasy
Elisha, a barber-surgeon from the poorest streets of
benighted fourteenth-century London, has come a long way
from home. He was always skilled at his work—but skill alone
could not protect him, on the day that disaster left his
family ruined and Elisha himself wrongly accused of murder.
With no way out, Elisha accepted the offer of Lucius, a
haughty physician, to avoid a trial by serving under Lucius
as a battle surgeon of the king’s army at the front lines of
an unjust war.
Elisha worked night and day, both tending to the wounded
soldiers and protecting them from the physician’s
experiments. Even so, he soon found that he had a talent for
a surprising and deadly sort of magic, and was drawn into
the clandestine world of sorcery by the enchanting young
witch Brigit—who had baffling ties to his past, and
ambitious plans for his future. But even Brigit did not
understand the terrible power Elisha could wield, until the
day he was forced to embrace it and end the war...by killing
the king.
Now, Elisha has become a wanted man—not only of those who’d
hate and fear him, but of those who’d seek to woo his
support. Because beneath the politics of court and castle
are those of power in its purest form: magic. And the
players in that deeper game are stranger and more terrifying
than Elisha could ever have imagined.
There are the magi, those who have grasped the secrets of
affinity and knowledge to manipulate mind and matter, always
working behind the scenes. There are indivisi, thought mad
by the rest of the magical world: those so devoted to their
subject of study that they have become “indivisible” from
it, and whose influence in their realm is wondrous beyond
even the dreams of “normal” magi. And then there are—there
may be—the necromancers, whose methods, motives, and very
existence remain mysterious, except to know that where the
rumors of their passing go, death follows.
But death follows Elisha, too.
First with his exceptional medical skill, and then with
something more, Elisha has always fought against the
darkness of his world. Yet as he begins a journey to help
rebuild the country he shattered, will he be able to
overcome the darkness inside himself?
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