Gatekeeper's Key
Published on 10. December 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
398 pages
978-1-7773423-5-7 (ISBN)
Description
She plunged her blade into his chest, feeling it grind along his ribs...
She plunged her blade into his chest, feeling it grind along his ribs...
Outcast swordfighter, Kyer Halidan, was abandoned in a cornfield at age three. Now, twenty years on, she's searching for answers: Who left her there? And why?
Kyer doesn't suffer fools, and when she kills a man in a duel, it changes her life forever.
The duel catches the eye of Valrayker, a legendary hero, who pulls her into his company for a high-stakes mission to save a village. While on the mission, Kyer is stalked and captured by powerful allies of the man she killed, who are determined to learn what she knows-and will stop at nothing to find out.
She's rescued by an inexplicable magic that raises suspicions among her friends-and fuels her enemies' wrath even further. And worse-their fear.
As trust crumbles around her and danger closes in, Kyer must defy orders and challenge the very people she swore to follow.
As for her true identity, Valrayker harbours his own suspicions. But he's keeping those secrets to himself... for now.
Gatekeeper's Key is an adventure riddled with danger, intrigue, mysterious magic, scheming villains, humour, sword-wielding badassery, and dark consequences.
"Gatekeeper's Key is a dark and luscious truffle everyone will want to savor and beg for more when it's done." ~ Diana Pharaoh Francis - USA Today Bestselling Author of the Path trilogy and the Crosspointe Chronicles.
Gatekeeper's Key is a thrilling start to a fantasy series full of danger, intrigue and attitude.
Reviews:
~J. Reeser - author: "I just finished reading Book 1, and it was SO GOOD. Absolutely sank into this one."
~Theresa Miller - author of Mushrooms, Magic and Murder: "I love this series. I just finished book three at two in the morning last night. For reference, I go to bed around nine. I just kept thinking just one more page. Just one more..."
~Ruby Seah - Goodreads reviewer: "WARNING: Start reading on a weekend or clear your schedule for the next few days because you will not be able to put this down!"
~Celia T - Goodreads reviewer: "This book is a love letter to classic fantasy: swords and sorcery, wizards and elves, struggles between good and evil - plus a spunky heroine who kicks ass and doesn't take anyone's sh*t."
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7773423-5-7 (9781777342357)
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Krista started out as a singer, took up acting, studied Theatre at UVic, then eventually added writing to her creative endeavours. She grew up in the Port Coquitlam vortex, and so was naturally pulled back there after her time away.
As a singer she has spanned several styles, having sung classical music for several years, then switched out and was part of jazz, rock and R&B bands for most of her career. She has been the vocalist for FAT Jazz for 427 years, and is half of a jazz duo called The Itty Bitty Big Band.
She writes primarily Fantasy, but has dabbled in other genres, in both short and long fiction. Her Gatekeeper series is more traditional fantasy, while Griffin and the Spurious Correlations, inspired largely by her rock band era, is Contemporary Humour Fantasy Romance.
Most recently she combined all her artistic exploits and discovered audiobook narration, with a little help from her friends, and then decided to start the podcast, [Totally Fantastic Title], which then branched into the production of her own audiobooks.