Talaria Press is proud to present their first anthology, Quests & Answers, with seven all-new stories of quests of discovery, written by the press founders themselves. Some showcase never before seen characters, while others feature your favorite characters from previously published Talaria Press works.
Learn the answers to some of the mysteries previously featured in other Talaria Press series:
In "Everybody's Cousin" from Ren Cummins, author of the Young Adult Science Fiction steampunk series "The Chronicles of Aesirium", find out how the streetwise young seer found himself in the middle of a dangerous game between Goya and Favo.
From HL Reasby, the author of the Sekhmet’s Light trilogy, we present "Lioness in the Grass": observe the trials of becoming NuruSekhmet, 4000 years before Nicole Salem became the avatar of the goddess of war.
And in Garth Reasby’s "Jill's Run", we discover how teenager Jillian Law escaped a house full of highly trained SIS agents in "Awaken" the first book in "The Children of Divinity" series.
Along with four additional short stories, this first edition of Quests & Answers also includes bonus chapters from each of the founders' original works to more deeply explore the worlds already discovered by thousands of readers world wide!
Though born in Illinois, Heather spent most of her life in the Phoenix/Scottsdale metropolitan area of Arizona. Now residing in the beautiful Pacific Northwest (literally moving from one extreme to the another) she is married to Garth Patrick Reasby, who is a talented artist and writer in his own right.
‘Quests’ features an interesting mix of prequels to existing works by the writers of Talaria Press as well as samples of the latest books being released by this house. The intent of the collection is, as the title suggests, to answer some of the questions that dedicated readers have had about their favorite characters, but also to wet the appetite of those who are new to what Talaria Press has to offer (myself being one). I found many of the tales not only to be imaginative and entertaining, but quality short-stories that stood on their own quite ably. This makes it a worthwhile read even if the reader doesn’t ultimately choose to delve deeper into the books that they are related to. My particular favorites were “Lioness in the Grass” (which convinced me that I should go on to read the Sekhmet’s Light Series by H.L. Reasby) “London 1865” (also by Reasby) and “Everybody’s Cousin” (by Ren Cummins). Overall, I found ‘Quests’ to be an intriguing mix of fantasy, magic, and adventure that I am certain others will enjoy just as much as I did.