A Wolf in the Dark by S. E. Turner

A Wolf in the Dark

Kingdom of Durundal Book 2

By S. E. Turner.

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IN THE KINGDOM OF DURUNDAL, HEARTS WILL BE BROKEN, LOVED ONES LOST AND THRONES TAKEN.

Lyall has lived and breathed nightmares since he was fourteen-years-old. He believed he knew every horror and was beyond surprise. He was wrong.

When General Domitrius Corbulo launches a brutal attack on Castle Dru in Durundal, he slaughters everyone inside.

Except one.

Though two years after finding salvation in a clan, Lyall is one of many captives taken to Ataxata to fight in the Killing Games.

However, the man who is training Lyall to fight and kill his comrades, is the same man who butchered and killed his parents.

Facing certain death, Lyall desperately needs a plan of escape …

To take back what is rightfully his, and prevent the kingdoms from turning into a war of annihilation.

Excerpt

The weather seemed to change within minutes of them standing there. A rough wind brought clouds the colour of granite with sheets of driving rain, while the pallor of the November sky closed in upon the mountains cloaking them in mist and obscuring the moon. And for all the tightly secure windows, there must have been a small crack in one of the panes, because every now and again little tears of rain ran down the inside and collected in pools on the edge of the sill. Somewhere in the distance a wolf howled, Atemisia shivered, the king moistened his dry mouth. The lone wolf was mourning, and it hung like a shroud over the weeping castle.

A Wolf in the Dark by S.E. Turner grabbed me at page one and never let go. A child’s nightmare comes true. Things get worse from there. Eloquent descriptions of the locale and events brought to mind vivid, flowing images of action and beautiful scenery. The characters were as human and driven by duty as any I have read elsewhere. A beautifully told coming of age tale.

A Word from the Author

Ajeya has travelled to Castle Dru in Durundal to ask for the kings allegiance as they fight a common enemy; the Emperor and the General. Here, King Lyall tells Ajeya of his rise to power and how he took back his ancestral home. Again the story involves the General and the Emperor as they seek total domination by taking all the seats of royalty and wiping out the clans. In Lyall’s story his ancestral home is attacked, but he survives by going through a disused tunnel. The tunnel takes him to the Clan of the Mountain Lion. Here he has to adapt to a new life, and accept being part of a new family. Though once again the General attacks the settlement and takes the youngest, fittest males to fight in the arena in Ataxata, home of the Emperor. The story is one of hope, desperation and survival, as the young group of men struggle to find a way to escape or face certain death.

Again the story is of survival and not giving in, even when everything is against you.

(S. E. Turner, 2021)