Freefall Cover Reveal
The countdown to FREEFALL continues. February 5th the book will be out, but: take a look at that cover!
Gorgeous, isn’t it?
You might notice that unlike the first book’s cover, this time Mark’s flying in broad daylight, with only a bit of white blurring around him. That could mean a serious change in magic’s secretive place in the world… or it could just mean he’s got someone to raise a blizzard to hide him. Hmm…
Something you can’t see, because it’s on the cover’s back, is my other tagline:
“Spellkeepers at war – this city’s not big enough for the four of them.”
(Which was why I wrote in a few more.)
My plan with FREEFALL has always been more. THE HIGH ROAD was Mark and Angie being young and barely able to use the magic, and willing to throw themselves at danger because Angie couldn’t see any other choice.
FREEFALL is Mark able to handle the magic, more or less. And he’s seen the cost of this fight, and he has a plan and a set of allies… but he’s still just nineteen, and all too aware of how he’s been more hesitant than Angie all his life.
And now I get to bring in some of the real dangers that the Spellkeeper world can escalate to. Rafe is back, still two steps ahead of Mark at most things, and he’s got another gravity belt (how?) and plans bigger than taking over one gang. There’s some of the history of possession magic, and moments that show just how nasty it can get. There are new characters, like Sasha (you haven’t even met Sasha yet!), who’s the last thing you’d expect in a story like this.
And of course, Olivia Nolan. Now that she’s Mark’s ally—on her own terms—you’ll see her being an experienced spellkeeper (hey, she’s the only one who knows the word!), a businesswoman who rewrites the rules, and a strategist with her own schemes and allies for tracking their mutual enemy. I have to keep reminding myself she’s a few years too young to be called “Grandma Badass,” but she’s not your typical urban fantasy character.
One other thing: I have a guest blog on some of the ways writers can see the world and the people around us. It’s over at Rising Shadow: https://www.risingshadow.net/articles/guest-posts/906-guest-post-a-writer-s-eye-by-ken-hughes