News and book reviews from award-winning British author K.J. Simmill
All Gailin wanted to do was help people. She had dedicated her life to learning healing, to treating the sick and injured. But when a patient dies she is convicted of witchcraft and sentenced to hang by the neck until dead. What looked to be the end of her life wound up to be a… Continue reading Book review: Lisa Lowell – Ley Lines (@LisaLowell15)
In Willliam David Ellis, Kisses Of My Enemy, the nameless one had been sealed in Tartarus long ago. The key entrusted to humanity. Occasionally, from time to time, there are those who find the means to unlock this prison, liberating the terror from within. Now is one of those times. With Germany set to fight… Continue reading Book review: Willliam David Ellis, Kisses Of My Enemy
For years there had been relative peace. The Hamen line ruled. With Eloy on the throne, things appeared calm. But how things appear upon the surface speak nothing of the undercurrents. War is coming, and it will take no prisoners, except for those held within its thrall. Eloy is about to discover that there is… Continue reading Book review: Tanor Costa – Dawn of the Cloaks (@Tanor_Costa)
In S. Lynn Helton's Power Awry Namid is busying herself helping to rebuild her former home, Rhadanthus, which was turned to all most ruin following the wake of her former adventure. With winter drawing in, time to create a safe shelter was running out, but little did she know the coming of Spring would bring more… Continue reading Book review: S. Lynn Helton – Power Awry
In Cheryl Rush Cowperthwait's, Ashera of Kingswood, the forest known as Kingswood had been cried by Ashera's own tears and those of her mother. She had protected it, guarded its inhabitants, and looked after the people. But all that changed when the king took a wife. An unnatural winter descended across the land bringing suffering… Continue reading Book review: Cheryl Rush Cowperthwait – Ashera of Kingswood (@CherylRushCowp1)
In Sarah Ashwood's Knight's Rebirth, Sir Buckhunter Dornley was renowned. He travelled, attend tournaments and came away victorious. Women fawned over the knight, men spoke of his great deeds, and yet no one was ever able to catch his eye. There was a reason for this, of course, he loved his life of hunting dragons,… Continue reading Book review: Sarah Ashwood – Knight’s Rebirth (@1sarahashwood)
In S. Lynn Helton's Duplicity of Power, Namid had spent a long time hiding who she was. She had left that life behind and embraced her place in the Shadowers. But when her path crossed with the son of a renowned lord her life would be forever altered. He had something unusual in his possession,… Continue reading Book Review: S. Lynn Helton – Duplicity of Power
Lydia had started her path with the purest intentions. Her sister, Adea, had been plagued with terrifying nightmares, which only seemed to grow worse. When forbidden topics and hidden knowledge surface, Lydia believes she has found a way to cure her sister, to ease her suffering. Little did she know this path was the start… Continue reading Book review: Taylor Caley -Whispers of Sikar (@aeonverse)
When an innocent dalliance, masked in deception, ends with murder, the king has some difficult decisions to make. For the good of his kingdom, he must abandon his daughter, keep her, and the baby she carries, from sight and mind, but her exile brings further danger as dark magic consumes the land, rekindling threats once… Continue reading Book review: T N Traynor – Idi and the Oracle’s Quest (@tracy_traynor)
In T.L Callahan's Rising Chaos, Lia Davis had known there would be things expected of her as Bennett's bond-mate, but when he whisked her away to his home she realised just how much was expected from her. Raised with no knowledge of their people, Lia finds herself under the merciless regime of Bennett's Arxhai, Selene,… Continue reading Book review: T.L. Callahan – Rising Chaos
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