#eight kingdoms

Final content edits on book two of the Eight Kingdoms series, The Circle Unbroken, are half done! Woo! Here, have an excerpt:  His name came hunting him with laughter on the wind beyond it, and the voice of a mortal girl that scattered across the snows of the Red Kingdom. “Bran Fionnan—come on, Bran, faster. They’re coming, they’re coming!” In a flash of red hair and crunching footsteps, Bran saw Saoirse Saorla pass before him and out into the further wilderness.  “Saoirse - wait!” He left the wood and moved toward the middle of the frosted meadow, the sound of Saoirse’s crunching steps the only sound he could hear besides his own breath. It was over now, he knew it. There was no escape from the ones who hunted him and the girl in such an open space. Blossoms hummed at his feet, and Bran scattered scentless petals as he broke a path through fragile ice flowers to the girl’s side. “I think we’ve lost, Saoirse.” “Not yet -” “Pick a direction if you want, but I don’t think it will matter.” She turned her face away from him and peered out across the snow. Bran followed her the path of her gaze with his own, sought movement beneath the tall pines they had just left, but there was nothing visible except the girl’s footprints, a clear trail across the wilderness of the winter landscape.  Pick up a copy of the bestselling book one in this series, Dark Side of the Sun, in ebook or print today! Book two coming this fall!