Scary October needs a scary witch.

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The scariest witch of all is one who wants to steal a life to extend her own.

To trap her victims, she pretends to help them.

And the scariest of witches has done this more than once.

 

In Autumn Spells that Scary Witch is Neehla.

Eager to re-embody herself in a younger woman, Neehla builds asorcerous spell. She traps the swordmaster Hethan in her spell and sends him after the Green Mage Saisha.

She does not know that Hethan and Saisha have met before.

She does not know that Saisha has befriended an accursed Prica, a man trapped in wolf form.

And she certainly doesn’t know that Hethan and Saisha will be united in love and determined not to be willing victims in Neehla’s plot.

 

The corrupt dame Neehla wants the swordsman Hethan to bring a Green mage to Senric Keep.  There she will reincarnate herself in Saisha’s younger body. 

She bespells Hethan to rip away Saisha’s power.

Hethan and Saisha first met in Baien Castletown. Although they were attracted, her magic prevented him from pursuing any connection.

Now the dame’s dark spells brings them together.

Can Saisha disentangle Hethan from the sorcery?  Or will she be trapped and turned into a wraith while the dark dame inhabits her body?

 

This is Edie Roones’ second book, but it is actually the first book written — which she rewrote — and reworked — and revised — then totally gutted and wrote again — then revised one more time during 2016 to publish it!

Discover more at this site: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MFHDUOZ

Discover more on Edie Roones’ page: Edie Roones | Writers’ Ink Books (writersinkbooks.com)

Edie’s currently working on the final book in the Seasons in Sansward quaternary. A corrupt invading army. Gitane Witches working dark spells. Scattered mages and swordsmen determined to fight evil. [But she’s distracted by Wild Sherwood, so this keeps being pushed back. Oh well.)

Book 1: Summer Sieges https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014OMJBFY

Bk 2: Autumn Spells https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MFHDUOZ

& Bk 3: Winter Sorcery https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BK88CDV

with Bk 4: Spring Magicks — coming for real, just not soon. Gives you time to read the others.

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Four Seasons. Four Trials Against Evil.
Classic battles of good against evil,
magic against sorcery,
and freedom against slavery and oppression

 

Read on for the prologue to the fantasy novel Autumn Spells.

Prologue

In this life her name was Neehla.  Over many lives, she had lost some things, gained others.  Through them all, her sorcery remained tangible evil, woven from the elemental air and the incense of her spells.

Her fingers flew across the loom, weaving a snare for the unwary.  She snatched a spiral of smoke from the air and twisted it deftly before joining the sorcered strand to the thread on the shuttle.  As it shot across the warp threads on the loom, the gray smoke deepened, becoming as darkly hued as the power that shaped it.

Continue reading “Scary October & Scary Witch: Autumn Spells” →

The first book in the alternate medieval fantasy by Edie Roones:  Seasons in Sansward

& Edie Roones’ First Book

& the First Book Published by Writers’ Ink Books

Summer Sieges

 

Honor and death? Or cowardice and life? 

Stark choices, and not that easy.

Beren, a warder at Caldew Keep, swore an oath to defend her lord and lady.  The arrival of the Watrani horde, allied with the Gitane Witches, changes the world she has known.

The Gitane Witches are sorcerers who have been exiled from Sansward for generations. They were banished after they were defeated in the Great War. What brings them to Caldew Keep, so far from the border with Watran?

Rumors say the Witches are searching for a talisman, lost years upon years ago, when the Witches were exiled.

Then the lady of Caldew Keep reveals that Caldew has hidden the Eye for generations. Lady Treasache orders Beren to protect the Eye, a magical crystal that increases a wielder’s power.

This talisman, the Eye ~ this is the reason the Witches have come so far into Sansward.

The Eye can magnify power ~ and that’s the obvious reason the Witches want its restoration to them.

Yet the Eye can do more. It can free sorcerers trapped in stone, and many of the more dangerous witches were imprisoned in rock rather than exiled. Their return will leave the Sansward allies with no defense against the Gitane.

Yet the Eye has one more benefit. It can remove curses.

At the end of the Great War, the formidable fighting warriors of Prica were transformed through sorcery into wolves that turned on their allies, the army of Sansward. Should the Prica resume their manhood, they will want a terrible vengeance on the Gitane Witches who imprisoned them. Time has reduced their number … even as it intensified their hate for the witches. 

Lady Treasache intends to steal away with the Eye in a desperate bid to keep it from the Gitane.  The Prica Storr thinks to use the Eye to shift back into man.

Will Beren sacrifice herself in a futile attempt to guard the Eye?  With only a sword as defense against sorcery, can she survive a battle against the Gitane Witches?  Or will she discover that the road to death is littered with people who chose honor over life?

Read the opening to the novel at this link: https://writersinkbooks.com/free-glimpse-summer-sieges/

Available now.