Tales of Pannithor Ebooks!
After some technical issues, the ebooks of our two latest Tales of Pannithor novels are live! Through Thick and Thin and Claws on the Plain are both now available in digital format.
Perhaps life was fairly simple beforehand, after all… Jaymes Ellias has been promoted to captain and now has the responsibility of a thousand tonne warship and its crew of nearly three hundred souls. He is committed to a relationship where the reality is far more complicated than the romance of the idea. He is learning that the relaxed and approachable nature of a junior leader does not always work as a senior commander. And that was before the East Infant Sea was threatened by another fleet of violent and deadly enemy warships, intent on causing a tidal wave of destruction across Basilean territories.
Caithlin Viconti has had her initial successes as a privateer captain. Now, she and her ship are well known to the pirates she hunts down, and the prizes are fewer and further between. The money is no longer rolling in, and she has debts to pay off and a crew’s wage to honor. If that was not enough, the sudden appearance of her father to criticize all of her recent decisions and actions - both professionally and personally - is less than ideal. And, like Jaymes, this was all before the appearance of a major Ahmunite bone fleet led by a deadly and remorseless high priest from the Empire of Dust.
Jaymes, Caithlin, and their friends and comrades are again propelled into action across the turquoise waters of the sun-drenched East Infant Sea, sailing and fighting beneath the Basilean flag as they face the threats of the Ahmunite undead and pirates in the defense of the Basilean Hegemony as they face the notorious Empire of Dust High Priest T’mork and his fleet of undeath.
The book is 288 pages, and contains a black and white sketch of the main protagonists inside.
Mantica has changed. With the drowning of the Abyss, the crisis in the East is over, a victory made possible by an alliance of peoples beneath the Green Lady’s banner. Galahir is saved, the Great Cataract remains unclaimed, and the Ahmunite fleet rests eternal in the depths of the Infant Sea.
The West tells a different story. Scarcely noticed by the Lady’s alliance, a massive orc invasion surged across the Ardovikian Plain. Against this green tide, the men and women of the Successor Kingdoms stood alone (with the exception of a little hired help). Rising boldly to the challenge, they united in the construction of a Great Wall along the Southern Plain, from which their armies decisively drove the orcs out of Ardovikia. It was a grand victory, and in its wake are those who talk of a new and glorious age in the West.
Standing at the precipice of a new era is little comfort to Uslo Dargent, general of the mercenary company Dargent’s Claws. Known to his men as ‘the Silver Cat,’ Uslo’s posting was uneventful during the war, and now, eight months after its end, it is nothing less than utter tedium. Denied a place in the defining conflict of his lifetime, Uslo itches for glory.
Not everything about the war was quite so enviable. The Young Kingdoms of the Plain are devastated, unaided or exploited by the Successor Kingdoms; the roaming Plainsmen of Ardovikia, having fled south to escape the orcish swarm, find themselves trapped beyond the Wall, forced into serfdom for Southern Lords. In a stroke of mutual good fortune, Uslo and the Ardovikians discover that their desires are aligned. The indentured Plainsmen wish for a return to their northern home and will need help crossing the Wall. In exchange, they promise to lead Uslo to something far more valuable than the glories of war – treasures from the age of Primovantor!
However, events in the east are not as distant as they might seem. Another has his eyes on the Plain and, with an army of the dispossessed at his back, would set his claws upon it.
Two leaders seek their destiny. Both will discover they are pawns in a game far greater than they can imagine, and, on the Ardovikian Plain, both will find far more than they bargained for…
The book is 325 pages, and contains a black and white map of the location where the novel takes place.
