In this second book in the Techromancy Scrolls, Laney Herder and Lady Celeste, are called upon by the Lupei of the Mountain Gypsies as their Soras, to help free their leader who had been kidnapped... and to stop a war between the realms of Sparo and the Gypsies.
Again, Laney is thrown into a world and politics that seem alien to her. She must follow her heart to do the right thing when all seems lost in a foreign land, when she stands against the swords of a nebulous enemy and the magic of one of the most powerful magic users of all time.
Can patience and understanding prevail in the face of an impending war that could change the face of the modern world?
Genre: FICTION / Fantasy / EpicIt was a #1 Amazon bestseller in its category in multiple countries, with thousands of copies sold, and a large fanbase.
It still ranks in the top 100 in its category on Amazon.com two months after release (Currently #19 as of 5/6/2016)
I ducked under a sweeping blade and spun to the left just to parry away the strike of another attacker. My blade, Anadele left an almost ghostly afterimage of wispy white as she shone brightly in the dwindling light of Father Sol.
The world was alive in color as amber sparks trailed from my eyes while I dove over a huge blade, which was almost as big as I was, as it swept past where my legs had been a moment before. I landed in a roll that put distance between me and two of my opponents, then I rolled up onto my feet, panting. They were wearing me down. They had been at it for over ten minutes now.
I could feel them moving around me, like wisps of white ghosts on the edge of my perception. Since the day of my second igniting I have been able to feel all of the life in the world surrounding me. I may possess the weakest magic potential of all the Techno Knights of Wexbury, but I was an Adept, and my abilities spanned the spectrum of known magics.
It was a state secret that I also possessed the magic of the People, the magic of the Mountain Gypsies that inhabited the Whispering Walls range. That was giving me the edge now, as the world came into focus on an instinctive level when I was accessing it.
Two years aforetime, the band of gypsies who befriended me and saved my life, the Lupei family, had imbued my cloak and my blade with charms that made me harder to hit and gave me just a little bit of luck.
I could feel the strike coming and I whipped Anadele up behind me to catch a blow that drove me to my knees. I panted as my blade sparked, her razor sharp edge never dulling thanks the glowing white runes on her and the fact that she had changed in nature in a way the Lupei could not explain.
