Savage

The Solumancer Cycle #2

by J.C. Staudt

Yeah, I killed him.

Kind of. I banished his soul to another plane of existence, leaving his body - and his life - to rot away in this one. Give me a break. It was an accident.

I needed to find out who sent him, so I did something few would've dared.

I assumed his identity.

That's right; I'm an impostor. Stupid move, I know. Now I'm trying to manage the intricacies of a new life, a new family, and more new magic than I can shake a ten-foot yeti at.

No matter how much magic I get my hands on, somehow I want more. That's why I'll follow a goblin down a barrel of cooking grease, rescue a girl from a vampiric social activist group, and search for my lost brother even though we're not actually related. Apparently wizards really do have all the fun.

256 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 25, 2017

About the author

J.C. Staudt was born in Oceanside, New York, and moved to Virginia at the age of four, where he has lived ever since. He is a graduate of George Mason University, with a B.A. in Integrative Multimedia Studies, and he works for an Engineering and Consulting firm as a New Media Designer. He lives with his beautiful wife in a house lacking pets and children in Manassas, Virginia.

Staudt has been an unrepentant nerd for three decades and counting. He spends his weekends playing D&D and theorizing about every possible plot twist and untimely death (and undeath) that might occur in the next Game of Thrones novel. He writes science-fiction and fantasy across three distinct universes:

The Aionach - A dying world whose sun is so hot and close it's turned the entire planet into a wasteland. For fans of the Fallout video games, the Mad Max movies, and Stephen King's Dark Tower novels.

Esperon - A planet shattered centuries ago after a cataclysmic event of unknown origin, which gave rise to super-human beings called techsouls and islands that float on an anti-gravitational element called driftmetal.

Orothwain - A realm of goblins, elves, and dragons, where everyone talks like they're fresh off the boat from middle-ages Europe. You know the place. Magic and nature exist in polar opposition to one another, so magic users battle nature users like a fantasy rendition of crips and bloods.

Find him on Twitter @JCStaudtWrites or on his website, jcstaudt.com