Charis and The Book of Storms

by Luke Taylor

In her eyes sleeps a hurricane, in her heart a keg of sable powder. She is the Captain of The Black Azrael and she has my ticket out of London, but only if I agree to help her look for something that has already claimed the lives of a hundred souls far braver than I.
Her name is Charis and I can’t say no to her.
Her ship leaves tonight.
And I’ll be on it.

And so begins, as told from a gender-neutral narrator, the first-hand account of Charis and The Book of Storms, a perilous seabound adventure best described as Pirates of the Carribean meets The Book Thief.

Set in the civilized mayhem of 1903, books are expensive and valuable resources. The rarer the book, the more it fetches on the open market as bourgeois seek to expand their libraries in an arms race of knowlege and literature. Charis, who was born on a ship and has spent her entire life at sea, has become the best book-snatching marauder in the world, and has been tasked by an eccentric Duke to find and recover a magical book that can supposedly control the weather. But Charis is not the only one who knows about The Book of Storms and the hunt for its empire-making potential is on. So Charis rounds up her international crew of misfits and sails The Black Azrael into the heart of the sea.

This YA Fantasy standalone is expecting publication in mid 2017.

Genres: Young Adult

Unknown Binding

About the author

Luke Taylor is an author and musician from Renton, Washington.

He has been writing since age 7 and playing guitar since age 13, publishing 7 novels across several genres and the instrumental hard rock album, Perpetual Winter, available on all digital platforms. He has also released an album with his melodic death metal band, Skölhammer, called Tiger's Tail, which is available both digitally and as a CD Digipak. For more information on Luke and his music, check out Luke's website

Luke has several series and standalone novels in the works.

Luke is happy to accept your friend request and hopes one of the many books or songs he has written will feel like it's written just for you.

Reviews

[Luke Taylor]

This book is to be dedicated to and written for all who want it, for all who need it. The magic of storytelling, the grandeur of adventure, soaked in all the colors of the sea and the hope of the new dawn. It's a story about friendship and adventure, and of course, books and pirates. Expected publication 2018.

[Sana]

IS THIS BOOK GOING TO ACTUALLY EXIST BECAUSE HOT DAMN.

[Cody Roecker]

Pirates of the Caribbean meets The Book Thief? Hell yes.