Series: The Talamadh
Volume: 1
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 1897130007
Pages: 322 pages
Publisher: Stoneharp Press
Price: 18.00
Reader Rating: 7 out of 10
Votes: 3
Volume: 1
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 1897130007
Pages: 322 pages
Publisher: Stoneharp Press
Price: 18.00
Reader Rating: 7 out of 10
Votes: 3
Description: For thousands of years the diverse realms of Ahn Norvys have known only peace and security. Governed by the great harmony established in ages past by the first High King, Ardiel—whose wondrously crafted harp, the Talamadh, first bound together the heavens and the earth in peace—the folk of Ahn Norvys have lived simple, unfettered lives. But Ardiel’s binding is beginning to unravel. The intimate connections between the things of heaven and the things of earth are being torn asunder. As the Great Harmonic Age draws toward its dire close, moral and social decay has taken hold in the land. Chaos and misrule are afoot, as are treachery and injustice. Evil figures grow in power and influence.
In "The Stoneholding", the Talamadh is stolen from Wilum, the High Bard, in whose care it traditionally rests in the remote highland clanholding of Lammermorn. To Kalaquinn Wright, a young Holdsman, falls the adventurous task of recovering the harp and embarking on the journey—a journey of danger and discovery—to restore the faltering harmony to a people and a world already deep beneath the shadow of darkness.
“Mark James has created an original story that hearkens back to the legends of ancient Europe using a prose style that draws the reader through the pages with impatient curiosity. It is one of the finest books I have read in a long time.” D. Beresford, Peterborough, ON
Read the first chapter of "The Stoneholding" at www.stoneharp.com.
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