Gemma Calvertson and the Forest of Despair
The Aepistelle Chronicles Book 1
by Ryan Hoyt
Genre: Epic Fantasy Adventure
A heroine’s first adventure. A kingdom’s last hope.
Gemma
spends her days studying a war her father fought in before her birth,
but she realizes that not everything is what it seems. When she sets
off to interview an aging hero, she learns about an emerging threat
to the kingdom prophesied by the forbidden factions of magic and
religion.
Since
she can’t go to the officials without incriminating her new friend
Richard, they must set off together on a journey through an uncanny
forest to confirm and neutralize the threat. Can they forge new
alliances and defeat the forces of evil without the use of magic or
the might of a military?
If
they fail, everyone they love will perish.
The
Forest of Despair is
the first book of the Aepistelle Chronicles, a new series of epic
fantasy adventures following an emerging heroine and her team of
sidekicks, including a witch with an army of children, a young
homeless seer, a giant ogre, a boisterous stage performer, and an
all-female crew of pirates.
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Ryan
Hoyt is a San Francisco Bay Area native and has lived, studied, and
worked there his entire life. His love for creepy and fantastic
stories was nurtured early on by his mother, who let him watch the TV
miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s It at
six years old.
Ryan's
debut novel,Gemma
Calvertson and the Forest of Despair,
is the first book of the Aepistelle Chronicles series of fantasy
adventures and releases November 1, 2021. A prequel novella,The
Witch of Ferathan,
is available now, and more will be released in 2022 and beyond. A
post-coming-of-age short story, "Freddy Goodman (Ain't No Good
Man)" is also available in eBook and paperback. The gothic
horror tale Raventree
Hollow follows
in the summer of 2022.
An awesome cover and an intriguing synopsis, this sounds like an excellent read. Thank you for posting about this book
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