His curly dark head bent while he rode with practiced ease. Sparing a glance over her shoulder, she was amused to realize that Merrick was actually reading the report. Sorcha wasn't looking forward to getting on a small ship with her new partner. They would have to follow the road north to the calmer port of Irisil, where kinder and warmer currents flowed into the harbor. She wanted a smoke badly, but there were only so many cigars in her pocket and she had a feeling if she got trapped in Ulrich, she might need every one of them. Sensitives were tricky creatures to get away from. Sorcha rode ahead of him and fought the urge to kick Shedryi into a gallop. All rights reserved.ĮxcerptsChapter Five In Dark Water Deacon Chambers was, thankfully, silent.
Balantine clogs her epic tale with battle after battle, introduces villains with bewildering frequency, and sustains such an unrelenting tension that the exhausted reader finally succumbs to indifference by her story's end. When they reach Ulrich, they discover that evil emanates from the Priory itself, permeating the town and determined to destroy everyone in it. Raed is Pretender to the throne and plagued with a "Curse" that draws the unliving to him like moths to a flame. En route they must combat the destruction wrought by the unliving about to lose a desperate battle with them, they're rescued by Raed Rossin, captain of an Ulrich-bound ship. Sorcha's expertise finds her soon ordered to Ulrich, a small community in a remote part of the kingdom "overrun with the unliving." Accompanying her is a new deacon partner whose Sensitive skills will balance her Active gifts.
Wonder Woman, make way for flame-haired Deacon Sorcha Faris, skilled and ruthless enough to defeat an enormous geist (German for "ghost") about to envelop humankind at the outset of Balantine's (Digital Magic) latest cluttered fantasy.
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