Dread Witch

Dreadmark Covenants #3

by J.L. Doty

Macallan prepares for all-out war with the Mountain Kingdom and the Lowlands. Now in Carthagen, Kainborne hopes to enlist Lucius's aid as he seeks to gain more power through the Dreadmark. As the diplomatic mission from Mythria comes to an end and the Mythrian's prepare to return, the Scairn priestess Andella seeks to uncover Caerie and Ket's secrets and pressures them constantly. Aurelius considers revealing more of Ket's past to Andella, while Ket and Caerie's relationship deteriorates further.

And no one is aware of the impending invasion from Quantanople.

304 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 1, 2024

About the author

Jim is a full-time SF&F writer, scientist and laser geek (Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, specialty laser physics), and former running-dog-lackey for the bourgeois capitalist establishment. He's been writing for over 30 years, with 15 published books. His first success came through self-publishing when his books went word-of-mouth viral, and sold enough that he was able to quit his day-job, start working for himself and write full time--his new boss is a real jerk. That led to contracts with traditional publishers like Open Road Media and Harper Collins Voyager, and his books are now a mix of traditional and self-published.

The four novels in his new hard science fiction series, The Blacksword Regiment, are scheduled for release in July 2020. Right now he’s fleshing out ideas for the next book in The Dead Among Us, he’s writing another episode in The Treasons Cycle, and he’s working on a new fantasy series The Deck of Chaos.

Jim was born in Seattle, but he's lived most of his life in California, though he did live on the east coast and in Europe for a while. He now resides in Arizona with his wife Karen and three little beings who claim to be cats: Tilda, Julia and Natasha. But Jim is certain they're really extra-terrestrial aliens in disguise.

Reviews

[R Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Highly recommend!