Classic epic fantasy adventure
What readers are saying about Silver Mage
"Silver Mage is a complex and multi-layered story charting one man's fate as he attempts to return dragons to his world. It is a beautifully told tale made up from all the ingredients that make fantasy so special: larger-than-life (yet realistic) characters, magic, dragons, battles, intrigue, love and betrayal. Silver Mage is epic fantasy at its best."
— Fantasy Book Reviews
“Best book I've read a long time. Imaginative storytelling, impressive world building and characters to root for and others to hate. Kept me on the edge of my seat and found it hard to put down. A brilliant read and I highly recommend it. You won't be disappointed.”
— Goodreads reviewer
“0ne of those books that you don't want to put down. A real page turner that keeps you guessing and fascinated. I was transfixed right up until the end.”
— Amazon reviewer
Books in the Long Dream series
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Silver Mage
The dragons once sacrificed everything to destroy their enemy. They failed. Now the burden of that failure falls on the man they have called to reforge what their war destroyed - the link between the races and the magic that holds the world together.
Touched by elemental Fire, Aarin is driven by his need to return the dragons to Andeira. But the dragons vanished three thousand years ago, taking their magic with them, and their ancient partnership with mankind is now no more than legend. Even the memory of the magic they shared is fading, and Aarin's obsession has made him an outsider even to his own people.
But when he is confronted by a magic he thought long lost, he suddenly finds himself in conflict with powerful forces intent on preventing the return of the dragons at all costs. And, deadlier still, the machinations of an age-old power that would sacrifice anything to see them returned, even the life of the man they have waited thousands of years to find.
Beset on all sides, Aarin must sort friend from foe and unravel the mysteries of a past long forgotten. Because, to survive, he must first discover the secret of why the dragons left - and what they risked everything to destroy.
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Silver Dawn
The magic has been healed, the ambition of Aarkan has finally been defeated, and the dragons have claimed Aarin for their own.
But outside the Long Dream, the world lies poised on the edge of chaos. Kinseris might rule in Kas’Tella, but Darred has suborned many in the Kas’Talani Order who have no wish to give up their power, and his invasion of Amadorn has taken him to the gateway to the north itself.
Those who survived the siege of Ephenor, who fought with Aarin to reforge the bond between the races, must once more face the consequences of the dragons’ power in the wrong hands.
But when Darred’s machinations imperil the emancipation of the dragons, Aarin will be forced to choose between two loyalties, and the resulting conflict could tear Andeira apart all over again.
Silver Dawn concludes the Long Dream sequence.
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