After years spent on EmberEarth, a magical world of epic fantasy, young William Tate has come of age.
Billy, and his first love, Ems Fick, race towards the final battle against the evil Bloodletters, a powerful cult of Dark mages who use a magic fueled by pain and suffering. But the young lovers disagree which path will lead to victory and go separate ways, each following their convictions. Ems believes they cannot win without help from friends and amassing more magical firepower. She summons The Dead to pluck ancient secrets from their unwilling minds. Billy believes winning means their first battle must be to rescue the students taken prisoner, students he and Ems allowed to be captured. He refuses to wait and will go alone if he must, traveling in secret because the Bloodletters have spies everywhere.
As Billy and Ems head in different directions, their friends encounter troubles of their own. Bast the healer, Bin, her priestly brother, and Gouge, the warrior, find themselves standing in opposition to their former friend, Raga, the waif who rules dragons. Her plans for domination mean the end to humanity.
Who will prevail? What price will they pay for victory?
Matthew Bunch was born in a small town outside San Diego, California. The fourth of four children, Matt learned to read from an early age. Often found with his nose in a book, he’d resist when called to dinner and after hurriedly gulping the last bite, would quickly return to his books. He spent much of his youth at the library and the local librarians knew him by name, allowing him to check-out the same number of books as adults. He wrote his first short story when he was twelve. In high school an English teacher discovered his passion and pulled him away from the other students to pursue a syllabus designed specifically for him, reading one book after another and generating written reports of each.
Matthew’s imagination is boundless, creating multiple worlds for his friends to explore and hundreds of characters for them to meet. His interests range from Epic Fantasy to Science Fiction to the Supernatural, including Dark Fantasy like H.P. Lovecraft.
The EmberEarth Chronicles is Matthew’s first full-length Epic Fantasy novel, weighing in at five-hundred pages and covering much of EmberEarth.
The Witch Named Heretic is the second book in the series, with many more to follow.
The Boy Named Warlock is Book Three of the EmberEarth Chronicles.
Action packed, wildly likeable fantasy fiction. Geared for youth, lovely for adults, too! Exciting time-travel, multiplicity of antagonists AND heroes. Something for everyone! I am looking for more by the author, MATTHEW BUNCH. Kudos Matthew😊
This book would not be good for children. Children being murdered and brought back to life to be used as murderers is not my idea of child appropriate.