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Kendik Dezelek is a young Swordmaster. He's tall, strong, and well-trained. But when he leaves his home village on the road to adventure, he soon finds that those things will only get you so far. In the land between the Tylon Mountains and the Serpent River, friend and foe are not always as they appear. In a world still recovering from the Scourge, when Horrors ravaged the land of Barsaive, Kendik is soon forced to choose between a range of evils. He travels with the surly and disreputable Turgut brothers. He encounters the bloated tyrant Lord Tesek, ruler of the growing city of Borzim. And he is ensnared in the plots of the feared and mysterious House of the Wheel. Most of all, he meets Anarya Chezarin, who enters his life from the depths of an ancient stronghold. Who is she, and what is her secret? It may cost Kendik and Anarya more than their lives to find out.
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I'm an author from New Zealand who writes climate fiction, science fiction, literary fiction, and poetry. I won the New Zealand Society of Authors Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship in 2022. Here's how you can buy my books, and some recent anthologies with my work in them: Books Emergency Weather is my new climate fiction (cli-fi) novel from The Cuba Press, published in October 2023. Three people find themselves in Wellington, New Zealand as the climate crisis crashes into their lives. A giant storm is on its way – what will be left of the city when it’s over? Where We Land is my climate fiction (cli-fi) novella from The Cuba Press, published in 2019. An earlier version of this novella, Landfall, is available from Amazon.com as a Kindle ebook. My latest full-length poetry collection is New Sea Land: poems about climate change, sea level rise, and the way the sea and the land interact with each and with us. My latest anthology is 2014 poetry anthology The Stars Like Sand: Australian Speculative Poetry, co-edited with P.S. Cottier. You can buy The Stars Like Sand from the publisher and from Amazon.com. You can also get special offers and more information on the Stars Like Sand Facebook page. Ever wondered what makes men tick? Then buy my latest poetry collection Men Briefly Explained from Amazon.com in Kindle or paperback format. My short story collection Transported, which was longlisted for the 2008 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, is now available for the Kindle. Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand, an anthology I co-edited with Mark Pirie, won the 2010 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Collected Work. You can buy Voyagers from Amazon.com as a paperback or Kindle e-book, or buy it directly from the publisher at the Voyagers mini-site. You can find details of all these books at my Amazon.com author page.
