Mistress of the Knell By Rupert Smithson

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Mistress of the Knell by Rupert Smithson

The Longbow clan’s fate seems doomed by an unexpected detour through a vortex in time and across vast reaches of space to a ghost town in a tiny frozen moon.

Masudah of Zau has through the power of far sight estimated that distant Chief Samarit Longbow is still alive, but barely. Since Aha Domain has repelled the reptilians’ dragon ships and their fire from the sky, Sir Rowan Berry feels the urgency to return to the northwest to find her, wherever she is in exile with the Longbow clan. He is on a quest for survival of a holocaust so that they can find a new homeland. Not yet fully recovered from nearly being burnt at the stake in the Ahan civil war, he has crossed the wilderness and found the Gate of the Shining Ones. He has pronounced the password, the true name of Dancer in Blood, the gatekeeper, which should have saved him a quarter of the journey, but something has gone awry. He finds himself in a strange world, an icy moon of ringed planet Zhamanak, in a timeline long Eorthe ages before the range of hybrid sapiens species the Primordial Architects experimented with exist: anders, canids, felids, reptoids and cryptids. Zhamanak’s moon Penetra Dor is ruled by a fabulously wealthy mad genius, whose agenda is vastly different to Rowan’s, who only wants to get back to Samarit. Trapped, will Rowan defeat the tyrant Aglet Scion-Aiguille or will he be marooned there, lost in time and space forever?

Mistress of the Knell is book three of the first trilogy in The Stars Hereafter Chronicles, a legend of courage, love, romance, mysticism and enlightenment as the dark past of a reluctant hero enables power but leads to increasingly dangerous crossroads on Eorthe and beyond.