The battle for Essenvar deepens as Gaben and Maredren travel with their battered and wounded companions into the unknown. The Arcane City lies ahead, once the center of all magical knowledge, now a haunted ruins where ghostly apparitions guard the final altar shard. As a misguided war spills out in the north, the siblings race to find a way to open the icebound portal and thwart Dravor’s return. Prophetic words of the constellation cycle continue to shift along with their motions in the night sky. An amorphous destiny winds itself around the group, leading them down a path filled with revelation, danger, power, and love. Essenvar’s fate is in the hands of many, intertwined in an ancient struggle that predates all recorded history. If the world is to survive, Gaben and Maredren must uncover the lost knowledge of the past and lead the way into a new era of unity.
Joshua R. Vance is a novelist and screenwriter that grew up in the endless mountains of West Virginia where he currently lives with his wife and two fur babies. His main areas of writing are fantasy and science fiction. He is a graduate of the University of Central Florida where he earned his BA in English/Creative Writing.
Coffee is to Joshua as gasoline is to a vehicle, without it he cannot operate. He has been working on his main series of novels, The Essenvar Series since early 2006, and is currently editing a side novel while working on the third and final Essenvar book.