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![Jacket with copy for Ryslad, by M. Turville Heitz.
Back copy: The plot was decades in the making. Then the final piece came into play …
Ryslad is an epic dark fantasy of political intrigue, magic and manipulation. It’s a story of lost Lore and broken Law, and in the end a tale of Love.
Generations of petty hatred fractured Ryslad into seven lands. Only the Pinnacle’s wizards maintain a tenuous peace, and ensure daemons exiled in the world’s making can’t breach the walls of the Without.
When the three sons of the ailing King of Suterlad are mysteriously lost, a succession war brews. Then, a young Pinnacle scholar, Val, is taken captive in the slums of Marhamere, unaware he is the last piece in a game of conquest that could destroy the Pinnacle and open the walls of the Without.
Val needs his wizard friends, a barmaid who sacrifices everything to help him, a woolherd possessed by a dead wizard, and support from all the lands to save them from rogue wizardry and daemons.
To succeed, Val must become everything he despises, just as his enemy planned.
Plus review snips of previous novels: “[Black River] may be the best candidate yet proposed for the title of “The Great Wisconsin Fantasy Novel.” Andy Porter, CaptainFlashback
“[Specters from a Dream] is an intricate, well-developed world and characters readers of fantasy will love.” S.E. Rogers](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cpbgpplszi6kjfm6cia47vlp/bafkreifiarpmy73fajbu33v2nctslekgwi7aqjpvn5wu4agwerxvexrkdu)
