Wizard's Shield

by C.T. Avis

"The Crown City pulses with tension. Assassins stalk the Royal Family. Their growing threat is a shadow from an old back alley, reaching out of a past when crime, not the king, reigned over the streets.

"My new client, a seemingly ordinary merchant, might be small-time compared to that, but danger looms large. To say a couple of goons are shaking him down is like saying Infernus is a little hot. He tells me that one of them is a damned apeman. Right. I’ve been hiring out my services as an inquisitor and martial artist for a while now. I’ve had my fair share of clients lie to me for their own twisted schemes.

"But it’s my client’s apprentice who puzzles me. Her sweet face hit me like a roundhouse kick, and her bitter attitude threatens to finish the job. She’s a newly minted wizarding-type, the kind I try to stay away from. She’s bristling with magical power, but something about her says she needs my help more than the merchant, even if she can’t admit it to herself."

Wizard's Shield is the third novel in the Inquisitor Damulis series. If you like your detectives irreverent, tough, and steeped in magic, Wizard's Shield delivers.

238 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 2, 2018

About the author

C. T. Avis is the author of The Inquisitor Damulis series, a series of detective stories set in a fantasy world. The correct order of the series is book one Ironedge, book two Upshot, and book three Wizard's Shield.

Born in the mystical land of "extensive corn flats" in 1973, C. T. Avis slayed his first dragon at the tender age of ten. He then charged his mighty steed into a lifelong quest for heroism in fantasy fiction and games. Somewhere along the line, he wandered into the office of a couple of hard boiled detectives who roughed him up and tarnished his shining armor. Staggered, but strangely invigorated, he turned his noble horse to a new path, one that straddled genres and tropes, and mixed metaphors (apparently).

A life-long tabletop role player and fan of detective fiction, he seeks to blend his two loves into exciting adventures for those who need a break from frozen, grim, courtly fantasy. Have a laugh along with a pulse-pounding plot, with heroes who seek out what it means to be human.