I don’t have just one new cover for you, but two! C.M. Debell has given her Tales of Isyr series a makeover and hired Jeff Brown for the new covers. The name might sound familiar if you regularly read epic fantasy or follow The Broken Binding for their special editions. Jeff Brown’s illustrations are highly detailed and evoke wonder.
I love that the short story collection got the same treatment. Often these are forgotten or not given much attention by readers, but I genuinely hope more people will pick up these collections. They add so much more to the world.
Check out the new covers for The Many Shades of Midnight and In Midnight’s Shadow!
The Many Shades of Midnight
Cover Designer: Jeff Brown
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Blurb
Isyr. Stronger, brighter, more beautiful than other metals. Once the most desirable thing in Ellasia, now it is priceless, the pure Isyrium needed to produce it mined to exhaustion. What’s left is controlled by the powerful mining syndicates, and such is the demand for their Isyrium that even kings do their bidding. Yet just as the beauty of Isyr hides a deadly secret, so too do the syndicates.
A terrifying enemy is spreading a plague across the land, a sickness that kills or transforms everything it touches. Unable to contain the outbreaks, the king of Lankara recalls from exile his former friend and military commander, Alyas-Raine Sera, a man who has spent years fighting syndicate expansion and whose resentment over his exile makes him an unpredictable, dangerous ally in the power struggle between the rulers of Ellasia and the mining companies.
Attached to the embassy sent to recall Alyas, apprentice surgeon Brivar finds his skills and loyalty tested as his service to his new patron uncovers secrets about Isyr and the plague that link it to the mining of Isyrium – and threaten the life of the man it is his duty to safeguard.
In their own separate ways, Alyas and Brivar must take on the might of the syndicates and confront the greed, murder, betrayal and impossible choices of a crisis that has been decades in the making – and the price of their failure could be everyone and everything.
In Midnight’s Shadow
Cover Designer: Jeff Brown
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Blurb
They took everything, even his name. Now he has nothing left to lose.
Fifteen years before the events in The Many Shades of Midnight, Alyas-Raine Sera was betrayed and exiled by a man he thought of as a brother.
Driven by a need for answers and desire for revenge, Alyas dedicates his life to opposing those responsible—his former king and the mining syndicates that control him. But with syndicate greed growing worse by the year, and disaster on the horizon, spiralling events will eventually lead him to a small mining town in Flaeres and a chilling encounter that will change everything.
Spanning the years of exile through to the immediate aftermath of the novel, this collection of seven stories reveals the pivotal events that shape the man who will reshape the world.
