Yazama Jiutarô, a young Japanese samurai warrior, had one purpose, to avenge the execution of his former master. But by a twist of fate had been wrenched from feudal Japan to the strange world inhabited by strange and fearful beings, beasts and monsters, by dark assassins and strange magic. He had felt alone but friends had taken him under their wing.
Now he was lost to them, buried beneath tons of rock in tunnels deep beneath the surface of the world. His friends, brave fighters with a diversity of skills, are devastated at his lost and have vowed to continue without him. There is much to do.
A witch with horrifying powers has to be confronted.
Will their strengths be enough?
About the author
Paul Boyce began creatively writing during his time in the British military and then as a civil servant when producing reports for his auspicious superiors and for industry. He often spends many hours in planning cunning ways in which to kill off his wife, stepson, son and daughter-in-law, and anyone else foolish enough to partake, in a variety of fantasy role-playing games. Unfortunately, he was recently diagnosed with MS which, on a plus side, now gives him plenty of time to tap away on the keys of his laptop. He insists that he won’t work around the MS, it’ll have to work around him!
He still has a very high respect for the use of punctuation, a dying art these days it seems, and cannot abide the puerile use of text-speak, especially by adults (LOL!). He was somewhat dismayed to hear, quite recently, a man in a pub say to his wife “Don’t bother using punctuation in your text, you don’t need it!” What is the world coming to when commas and the semi-colon are consigned to history?
He has already commenced the follow-on manuscripts for Black Harlequin and Far from Home. With luck and a fair wind, and Microsoft Windows 10 permitting, these will both be published in 2016.