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The Protectorate #4
Shipwrights
Having safely escaped from the Invader occupied city of Renais, Kale and his friends aboard the Sylph agree that their next destination should be Ikrith Skyhold. They were able to rescue Captain Avernus's family from the city, and with them safe now their thoughts turn to their friends in their home skyhold, who may be punished for the Sylph's decision to go renegade rather than fire on a Revenant airship.
On the way Avelya hopes to learn to fly the two rocs she captured from the Invaders, and with them gain the true freedom and exhilaration of flying. But that's only if she can convince Banshee, the roc rider boy she first rescued from a shipwreck and then later took prisoner in Renais, to teach her.
Meanwhile the Protectorate is in turmoil, with the Revenants having boldly attacked Inferno Skyhold itself, home of the High Council of Elders that leads the Brotherhood of Corsairs and rules the ground, and also of the Shipwrights who create the airships and all the other wonders the Corsairs use. As if that weren't enough, the Invaders from across the Withered Sea are pursuing an all-out attack on the Protectorate, taking cities and besieging skyholds.
Avernus believes that the Protectorate's only hope is for Corsairs and Revenants to put aside their differences and join together to beat the Invaders. But that's easier said then done when there's so much animosity between the two groups. All Kale knows is that he wants to help his friends, and even though he's still new to the sky he dreads the prospect of having to fight fellow Corsairs.
On the way Avelya hopes to learn to fly the two rocs she captured from the Invaders, and with them gain the true freedom and exhilaration of flying. But that's only if she can convince Banshee, the roc rider boy she first rescued from a shipwreck and then later took prisoner in Renais, to teach her.
Meanwhile the Protectorate is in turmoil, with the Revenants having boldly attacked Inferno Skyhold itself, home of the High Council of Elders that leads the Brotherhood of Corsairs and rules the ground, and also of the Shipwrights who create the airships and all the other wonders the Corsairs use. As if that weren't enough, the Invaders from across the Withered Sea are pursuing an all-out attack on the Protectorate, taking cities and besieging skyholds.
Avernus believes that the Protectorate's only hope is for Corsairs and Revenants to put aside their differences and join together to beat the Invaders. But that's easier said then done when there's so much animosity between the two groups. All Kale knows is that he wants to help his friends, and even though he's still new to the sky he dreads the prospect of having to fight fellow Corsairs.
429 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 31, 2017
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Nathan Jones
31 books31 followersMy name is Nathan Jones. I write mainly in the post-apocalyptic and science fiction genres. My most recently completed project is The Challenge, first book of the post-apocalyptic No More Content series, a collaboration with my brother Seth Jones. My next project is Mythas, first book of the fantasy adventure series Band of Outcasts.
I've been a longtime reader of post-apocalyptic fiction, and like to explore various scenarios in which disasters could occur. One interest has been observing just how fragile our modern life is, and how little it would take to send us back to a low tech existence that people in general no longer possess the knowledge or skills to survive in. That interest inspired me to write and publish my completed post-apocalyptic series Best Laid Plans, comprising the five books Fuel, Shortage, Invasion, Reclamation, and Determination, and to build on that story with the completed Nuclear Winter series, which begins shortly after Best Laid Plans ends and includes the four books First Winter, First Spring, Chain Breakers, and Going Home, as well as the standalone novel Fallen City.
Outside the Best Laid Plans world I've written the completed post-apocalyptic Mountain Man series, with the novels Badlands, Homecoming, Homeland, Mountain War, Final Stand, and Lone Valley. I also have the completed post-apocalyptic Isolation series with Shut In, Going Out, Starting Anew, and Holding On. My current post-apocalyptic series is No More Content, with the recently released first book The Challenge.
I've also been a longtime reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy, with an equally deep love of those two genres. This has inspired multiple projects, the most recently completed being my science fiction novel Caretakers, Book Two of the Stag Privateers series, sequel to Last Stand. My other science fiction story is Boralene, Book One of the Stellar Merger series.
The stories I've written in the Young Adult Fantasy genre have now been moved over from another pen name to be available alongside my other books. These books include the completed The Watchers trilogy with Undying Heights, Ithel's Library, and Deep Dwelling, the completed The Protectorate series with Corsairs, Revenants, Invaders, and Shipwrights, and the standalone children's fairy tale Firefly Girl.
I've been a longtime reader of post-apocalyptic fiction, and like to explore various scenarios in which disasters could occur. One interest has been observing just how fragile our modern life is, and how little it would take to send us back to a low tech existence that people in general no longer possess the knowledge or skills to survive in. That interest inspired me to write and publish my completed post-apocalyptic series Best Laid Plans, comprising the five books Fuel, Shortage, Invasion, Reclamation, and Determination, and to build on that story with the completed Nuclear Winter series, which begins shortly after Best Laid Plans ends and includes the four books First Winter, First Spring, Chain Breakers, and Going Home, as well as the standalone novel Fallen City.
Outside the Best Laid Plans world I've written the completed post-apocalyptic Mountain Man series, with the novels Badlands, Homecoming, Homeland, Mountain War, Final Stand, and Lone Valley. I also have the completed post-apocalyptic Isolation series with Shut In, Going Out, Starting Anew, and Holding On. My current post-apocalyptic series is No More Content, with the recently released first book The Challenge.
I've also been a longtime reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy, with an equally deep love of those two genres. This has inspired multiple projects, the most recently completed being my science fiction novel Caretakers, Book Two of the Stag Privateers series, sequel to Last Stand. My other science fiction story is Boralene, Book One of the Stellar Merger series.
The stories I've written in the Young Adult Fantasy genre have now been moved over from another pen name to be available alongside my other books. These books include the completed The Watchers trilogy with Undying Heights, Ithel's Library, and Deep Dwelling, the completed The Protectorate series with Corsairs, Revenants, Invaders, and Shipwrights, and the standalone children's fairy tale Firefly Girl.
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If you read the first 3, you know it's good, so what are you doing reading this...? Common, go get it!
If you read the first 3, you know it's good, so what are you doing reading this...? Common, go get it!
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