Written by: John Blackport
Submitted By: John Blackport
(This review submitted by the book's author)
Heartfelt thanks to Professor Cornwell, whose writing I've long admired, for extending the kind offer to post my book here.
Rick Rivoire is flush with money, women, and prospects. He protects his country as one of the Rainguns, an elite regiment of spellcasting cavalry.
But the national policy drifts further and further into slavery and religious persecution, sparking rebellion. Joining the rebels could land Rick on a prison ship, in slave-irons --- or atop the same gallows where he watched his father hang.
The alternative looks no brighter. The status quo imperils Rick’s hard-won self-respect. Supporting tyranny would doom his dream to emulate Terez, the valiant swordswoman who braved a den of monsters to rescue the lonely, terrified nine-year-old boy he once was.
Rick can’t stay above the fray forever. He must either defend an aristocracy whose actions disgust him --- or risk everything he has.
