Ashen Rider
A Dusk and Dawn Novel by James D. Mills
PANDEMONIUM AWAITS.
When her mother is claimed by Death a second time, Kateryna is forced to abandon her afterlife and descend into Pandemonium—a shattered underworld shaped by pain, memory, and buried sin. To save her mother’s soul, she must join forces with her estranged father, whose devotion to a fallen goddess set this all in motion. Hunted by Morgana, the Goddess Corrupted and her chosen griffin-riders, Kateryna must journey through the shadows and confront the reality of her own dark past—because in Pandemonium, death is only the beginning.
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"Ashen Rider is a wonderfully immersive ride into high fantasy with tight storytelling, epic sweep, and fantastic characters that will live on in your mind long after you've finished the book. Mills has created a dramatic and propulsive work, full of the kind of drama and suspense you can expect from the best of the genre. Adventurous without ever compromising its intelligence or its drive, Ashen Rider is a vivid and thrilling delight."
— Cameron MacKenzie, author of River Weather, and The Beginning Of His Excellent And Eventful Career.
After her father's blind devotion to a fallen goddess leads to her mother's second death, Kateryna is forced to abandon the stability of her tortured afterlife and decend into Pandemonium—a fractured, hellish world where the dead are not allowed to rest.
To reclaim her mother's soul, Kateryna must join forces with the last person she trusts: her estranged, fanatical father. Together, they navigate turgid seas, haunted fields, and dive into the heart of a city ruled by the Demon King to escape the ever present gaze of Morgana, the Goddess Corrupted who no longer cares for the balance of life and death.
Pandemonium is not like the mortal world—it reflects the pain they carry and the sins they've buried; the consequences of the choices they made in life. As Kateryna's journey spirals deeper into shadows, she'll have to confront not only the horrors of hell, but the truth of her own past.
Fans of Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen and N.K. Jemisin's The Broken Earth Trilogy, will love this gripping tale. ASHEN RIDER is a dark and mythical meditation on perseverance, fractured family, and the cost of redemption in a world where death is only the beginning.
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ISBN (Paperback): 979-8-9923135-8-1
ISBN (Hardcover): 979-8-9923135-9-8
ISBN (eBook):
Page count: 196
Size: 5.5" x 8.5"
Genre: Epic Fantasy, Mythological Fantasy
BISAC Categories: FIC009070 FICTION/Fantasy/Dark Fantasy; FIC009020 FICTION/Fantasy/Epic; FIC009120 FICTION / Fantasy / Dragons & Mythical Creatures
Tropes: psychological, multiple POVs, family, redemption, wizards, mythological creatures, dragons, griffin, pegasus, angels, goddesses,