When the first book of The Coraidic Sagas, Blood of Heirs, launched in 2018, a very small part of me wondered if the trilogy would have an ending. Parts of my life, solid and sure, were disintegrating around me. The certainty that I could finish what I’d started slipped more than I care to admit.
There’s something inexplicably daunting in writing something this epic. And I can say for sure that I’m not the same person who set out to write this story. I’ve been through too much. Got more grey hair, more scars. Finishing Legacy of Ghosts was a struggle. Every page, every word, an exercise of determination to realise the second phase of the Saga.
Lidan and Ranoth grow up so much in the years we travel with them. They’re broken down, then rebuild themselves, just to get through another day. There’s darkness and hope in their journey; something that filtered through from our global experience of the pandemic. Empire of Shadows was my isolation novel. A manuscript born amidst the tectonic shifts of 2020 and 2021. When it finally flew the nest in January of this year, there was an immense sense of relief and joy.
I’d done it!
And now it’s time to launch the
Omnibus Edition of The Coraidic Sagas—a 443,000-word brick in eBook form—all
three volumes in one. Such an enormous milestone warranted a brand-new cover, and
a different design approach.
Everything from Ran’s magic, to Lidan’s knives, to her skin colour, the ruins and bushland in the background—it all has meaning and significance in the story. The shafts of light burn across the scene, as if stained by a bushfire off screen. Blood drips from Lidan’s knives. We can’t see who they are fighting, and for a large part of the story, their enemy remains an enigma.
I really enjoyed the
collaborative partnership Virginia and I had, working together to build what
was in our minds, the best version of these characters and this world. Virginia
managed to translate my vague ideas into something incredible, and I’m so
excited to see this edition come to life.
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The complete trilogy, all in one digital box set. Perfect for fans of Robin Hobb, Devin Madson and Mark Lawrence.
“This is riveting epic fantasy. Fast paced, brutal action, dark & confronting.” - Juliet Marillier, author of the Sevenwaters & Warrior Bards series.
How far would you go into the darkness to reclaim what you have lost?
Lidan Tolak is the fiercest of her father’s daughters; more than capable of one day leading her clan. But caught between her warring parents, Lidan’s world begins to unravel when another of her father’s wives falls pregnant. Before she has time to consider the threat of a brother, a bloody swathe is cut through the heart of the clan and Lidan must fight, not only to prove her worth, but simply to survive.
Four years have passed since Lidan’s world was ripped apart, and time is running out to change her father’s mind about the succession before the bargain with her mother expires. Torn between what she wants and what she knows is right, she is faced with an impossible choice; will her brother live, or will he die?
Within the walls of the Hidden Keep, Ranoth holds his secrets close as he tries to harness his wild magic. But when life in the Keep descends into chaos, he is cast once more into the outside world, forced upon a southward path toward unknown lands and untold danger.
With Ran set on seeking justice and revenge, and Lidan fighting to find her feet and follow her heart, journeys will converge, and the ghosts of a past thought long dead will rise.
In the aftermath of battle, a truth is laid bare—the world, and the people within it, are not as they appear.
Adrift without an anchor and nursing a broken heart, Lidan steels herself for a task she never thought would fall to her—to hunt down the architect of the horrors that have plagued the South Lands for years.
Ranoth stands on a precipice, his plans in tatters. The path forward leads as easily home as to death. Hungry for answers, he and Lidan set out in pursuit of a common enemy, for dark and fathomless powers are moving beneath the surface of Coraidin.
The unseen realms have awoken and within them, ancient feuds flare to life.
A new and deadly threat looms, and an old bargain will be struck anew. Will Lidan and Ran survive the coming storm to finish what they have begun?
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