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The Six Kingdoms Codex
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Contents of Codex:
A Six Kingdoms Glossary
Timberlimb Glossary
GEBROAN, MYRCIA LUCIDOR, HELVEYLYN, KESHKEVAR, SKARRIA
Short story:
“Cappoch Spetts’ Long Day“
Young adult story
A Wind Between Worlds
The summer trip to England, Scotland and Ireland was supposed to be a ‘roots’ trip for the Kincaid family from upstate New York, where ten-year-old Thomas likes to do three things in particular: play baseball, read and horse around with his dog, Grendel.
At the ruins of an Irish castle, Thomas comes across what looks like a Thanksgiving dinner napkin ring or maybe a neckerchief slide, the kind his older sister Emma wears to Scout meetings. It’s not what you’d expect to find at a place like this, but someone must have lost it.
He figures there must be a Lost and Found in the caretaker’s office/museum, right over there in the keep, which is the only intact part of the castle.
So Thomas picks up the whatever-it-is….
Fantasy Novels
Triskell
A VILE CRIMINAL TURNED LEGEND
A DEADLY SHADDEN THOUGHT DEAD
A THRONE TO RESTORE
TO A RIGHTFUL HEIR
The man who calls himself Scalda Saig created his legend in but a night and day, rousing the people of Keshkevar’s capitol city to insurrection against their hated Skarrian overlords by doing what no one in over a thousand years had ever done.
Falca Breks knows the new Sanctor of Keshkevar by his real name, Lambrey Tallon; knows he never did what he claimed; knows all about the vile man and his criminal past, in fact, because Falca was the one to send him to prison years before in far-away Lucidor.
He also knows where there’s evidence to prove that Scalda Saig is still the shit-smear he’s always been.
Falca and others have a plan to restore Keshkevar’s Labrys Throne to its rightful heir: the Demizell Cyalla. They could use a little more help, however…such as an army.
Instead, they get a young woman from Falca’s past: Shar Stakeen, a beautiful and deadly shadden who’d once been paid handsomely to kill him.
She is the last person he expects to see, since she died at a place called Scaldasaig.
But she is very much alive–and she’s not alone.
Kraken’s Claw
(Book 4, The Six Kingdoms)
Falca Breks, a rapparee from Draica, left much in the northern wilderness of the Rough Bounds—the riches and renown that could have been his had he stayed at the lake-isle fortress of Scaldasaig he captured, against all odds, from traitorous Wardens of Lucidor.
Falca decides to head farther south, he cautioned himself to keep his expectations low. When you undertake a long, solitary journey through the past and two of the Six Kingdoms to find a woman you’ve never met before—who may not even still be alive—and tell her the bitter-sweet truth of what happened to a man she once loved and believed tragically lost, who had become like a father to you…well, you’ve got to be prepared for things not to go the way you hoped.
Sometimes escaping is the only way to find what you never knew you were looking for all along.
The Shadow of His Wings
The Shadow of His Wings is the story of a miner’s son, Lukan Barra, and his quest. Set near the end of the first millenium in Myrcia, one of the Six Kingdoms, the novel opens with the estrangement of Lukan from his criminal brother, Vearus, who returns from exile with the secret of healing and transformation of the flesh that gains him power second only to Myrcia’s despotic ruler, the Sanctor Grouin.
“The Shadow of His Wings was almost impossible to put down. The characters are compelling, and watching Lukan develop from a good but gentle and very ordinary man into a hero with an iron will fascinated me.” — Christopher Stasheff
“…Fergusson has imagination and style to spare. This satisfying story keeps the reader guessing what will happen next.” —Publishers Weekly
The Mace of Souls
Wealthy, high-born Amala Damarr was supposed to be the means for Falca Breks—a roughneck, thief, and extortionist—to fulfill his long-held dream of escaping the decaying port city of his birth. And so she proved to be, but not in the way he planned on—because leaving the dismal, dangerous streets and alleys of Draica included a price he never thought existed: two souls worth saving…and Falca Breks was about to discover that one of them was his own.
“Richly imagined…will confirm the praise accorded Fergusson’s debut effort, The Shadow of His Wings.” —Publishers Weekly
Pass on the Cup of Dreams
Can a cut-throat reiver escape his nefarious past with the help of the only woman he’s ever loved and a promise he never dreamed he’d make? Falca Breks will find out on a journey through a wilderness more dangerous than the squalid city of his birth, toward confrontations with not only enemies past and present but also himself—and the lure of two things that could make him the richest and most powerful man in the Six Kingdoms.
“Pass on the Cup of Dreams quickly immerses the reader in the imaginatively detailed fantasy world of the Six Kingdoms. Fergusson’s writing is excellent, the plot relentless, the characters wonderfully complex. If you enjoy gritty, dark fantasy you will find a feast here.” —Robin Hobb, New York Times bestselling fantasy author
A Beast in the Ruins
“Old age sometimes carries with it the urge to confess to secrets accumulated over the years. I have only one: I murdered my brother. I had no hand in his death, nor did I ask anyone else to do what I could not. I never wished him dead even after we were estranged. You may think this a riddle. It is not. I did kill him. To understand why, you must come back with me to the day he and I met the Bell Boys…”
So begins Bruce Fergusson’s A Beast in the Ruins, an 8,000-word story set in the same Six Kingdoms world as his novels The Shadow of His Wings, The Mace of Souls and Pass on the Cup of Dreams.
Suspense Novels
James Malloy has had his share of troubles, beginning with his father’s abandonment of his family, the fragile mental health of his wayward brother, Sean – and the sudden, violent end to Malloy’s dreams of a major league baseball career.
When he meets and falls in love with Katie Walsh, the skies open.
But not for long.
Shortly after the two become engaged, Katie disappears. Many months pass before he learns – in the most shattering way possible – what happened to her.
James Malloy’s ensuring hunt for Katie’s murderer – and the chance discovery of his missing brother’s shocking, long-kept secret – will lead Malloy to the remote mountain cabin of an artist named Helen Sommers and entangle him in a private obsession that spans time and distance and puts them both in the path of a vicious, demented killer.
The Piper’s Sons
Here’s what others have said about the first of Bruce’s suspense novels, The Piper’s Sons,
“Occasionally a new novelist can offer characters I’ve never met before, and occasionally a novelist can tell a story I’ve never heard before. In this terrific debut, Bruce Fergusson manages to do both. The Piper’s Sons is a brooding, unsettling thriller that manages to redefine the meaning of skeletons in the closet.” — Stephen White, author of Manner of Death
“Bruce Fergusson has what most suspense writers do not: command of the English language. You’ll be up all night unearthing the secrets buried in The Piper’s Sons, and Fergusson makes the digging a pleasure, not work. A powerful debut that will stay with you long after you close the book.” — Greg Iles, author of Mortal Fear
Morgan’s Mill
In pursuing the mystery of his grandfather’s disappearance, Thomas Morgan discovers shocking secrets beneath the family’s soon-to-be-razed gristmill that have linked two families in a deadly symbiosis going back to the Civil War, secrets that will thrust Morgan—and the woman he loves—squarely into the sights of a psychopath.
Seamlessly weaving history of the Civil War and Underground Railroad with a contemporary story of corrosive control, psychotic possessiveness, retribution and redemption, Morgan’s Mill is a suspense novel of chilling psychological portraits and signature detail.