Adam Gray is dead...
...so when he awakens in the quiet dark of his small apartment, the young man's sanity seems far from certain. For the past six months, he's battled the undead, befriended giants, fallen in love, and struggled against an ultimate evil. Just a dream? Or has he fallen into complete madness?
Maybe he should ask the wizard passed out on his couch.
Thus begins Adam's desperate struggle to return to Tantris; a magical land that's undergone a terrible transformation. Friends and loved ones are all dead; slain at the command of the Dark Mage. Armies of Unsouled roam the land, slaughtering and devouring the scattered few who dare to fight back.
Burdened by a terrible guilt, Adam must undo the death and devastation wrought by the Dark Mage. With the might he wielded before now turned against him, Adam searches for another way to save those most precious to him.
The future of Tantris lies in its past and on Adam's pursuit of a mythical token of power: the Talisman of Time.
Dark Mage Series
D. Bruce Cotton grew up in a small rural town in central Kentucky. A certified bibliophile, when he wasn’t digging through the local store’s latest delivery of comic books, you could usually find him camped out in a corner of the town library, avidly reading the literary masters: Isaac Asimov, Edgar Rice Burroughs and J.R.R. Tolkien. After graduating with a somewhat useless degree in English, he went to work for Uncle Sam, serving as a statistical clerk at a nerve gas laboratory, as a public affairs specialist, and for the last 27 years as a writer and editor for PS Magazine, an Army comic book designed to teach Soldiers how to care for their equipment. Bruce lives in Huntsville, AL, with his wife, Cindy, and 2-year-old standard poodle named Gracie. He’s the author of three books in the epic Dark Mage fantasy series: Magician’s Heir, Magician’s Return, and Magician’s Quest. To find more about these books and future additions to the series, go to https://www.dbrucecotton.com.
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