Virtual Book Tour: Within by Peter Gribble

 Good morning everyone! Please welcome author Peter Gribble to Full Moon Dreaming! He is here to tell us about his new release, Within. Peter will be awarding a $15 Amazon/BN GC to one randomly drawn commenter via Rafflecopter during the tour. The more you comment, the better your chances of winning. To find the other stops on his tour, go here. Don't forget to look for the Rafflecopter at the end of this post!

 

Within

by Peter Gribble

 

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GENRE: Fantasy

 

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BLURB:

 

Purdu, the barbarian invader, has arrived! How can the pacifist, nonviolent City of the Magicians contain him when one faction appeals to his heart, the other to his ambitions?

 

Sas and Lalya are envoys of opposing camps, but Purdu throws them together to isolate them from their enclaves and assert his own authority. Yet two others decide to oppose him their way. Hyur, foremost metallurgist, secretly forges a magical weapon to tempt and subvert him. Gleswea, an astronomer, flees south to view skies she has never seen, but is swept into a culture that judges women of ability as necromancing witches deserving death.

 

Shoan, City strategist, reconstructing his wrecked plans, is unaware these four have slipped his calculations. Sas, Lalya, Hyur and Gleswea are unknowingly inching the City toward an unseen, perilous fate. Will anyone catch it in time?

 

Within, the second book in The City of the Magicians series, exposes how even as the City's old dream of a rebirth in Magic seems to be happening, traditional institutions are failing. With Purdu spearheading the revival, some Citizens fear the purposes their Magic may soon be turned to.

 

Praise for Threat, the first book in The City of the Magicians series.

 

"An exquisitely crafted, richly textured world of magic and mystery, with settings and mood so exceptionally well visualized that fans of science fiction and fantasy should not pass up the chance to walk inside." – IndieReader

 

"Apart from the beautiful writing, the robustly written characters, and the strong setting, Peter Gribble has the ability to immerse readers in a world that is well-imagined and sculpted. Having enjoyed Threat immensely, I am looking forward to the next installment in the series." - Readers' Favorite

 

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EXCERPT:

 

It was unnerving having Purdu absent. The men, already ill at ease with the ominous lake and their commander on the inaccessible Magicians’ mountain, chafed at the too quiet afternoon. No one wanted to practice riding drills or play competitive war games anymore. Those who tried did so in desultory fashion. Nor did Purdu return in the evening.

 

Late afternoon of the second day of Purdu’s absence, Hakl, the engineer, entered Purdu’s tent (with the guards’ perfunctory permission) to re-examine the maps the first scouts had sketched to determine if upper courses of the cursed river had possible fording spots.

 

His search never went beyond the side room where the strange metal balls lay haphazard on a saddle blanket spread out on the floor.

 

Finely wrought designs on their surfaces were Plateau embroidery in metal thread—exotic work by a master artisan. Only Klebur, Purdu’s second in command—away securing and rebuilding the ravaged city of the aristocrats—had been allowed to see them. Hakl, like most everyone, had only seen the long red leather box they came in, but never their contents. The balls, siblings identical

 

to one another, had been rolled out onto the blanket as if Purdu had taken—they were divining tools!

 

Of course. A gift from the Magician would be nothing less.

 

He always scoffed at the credulous, those far too willing to hang their lives and fates onto intangible superstitions, yet he had never quite been able to shake his own sister Kakla’s last private comment to him as they parted. A respected shaman of the Haptukatl, her word, however suspect, had lodged persistent in his mind: “Success there is along the way, yet at the end he will be stopped by fire.” Despite her irritating habit of referring to people in the third person, Hakl was sure she had meant Purdu and not himself and, against such an event, had quietly kept fire retardants on hand and quietly close to the Commander whenever possible. Though before him now, these exquisite crafted balls of the Magician were eerie tangibles compared to utterances to quail the spirit.

 

Almost all of the ball’s images had a wavy-lines icon uppermost. Three were different: a simple depiction of a horse; beside it, a man icon; and in front of those two, an image of a woman. All those wavy lines surrounding them, though . . .

 

They meant “river.”

 

River, river, river . . . the Magician’s prophecy coiled and tightened around every heart in the Earth-Scorching Wind: It will claim three of your best people. Hakl thought he could very well be one of them.

 

 

 

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Peter Gribble has written for NUVO and other magazines in British Columbia.

For over ten years he wrote a monthly gardening column for a local Vancouver paper.

The City of the Magicians is his first published series.

 

 

CONNECT WITH Peter Gribble

 

WEBSITE - Peter Gribble – Author

https://petergribble.com/

 

GOODREADS - Peter Gribble (Author of Threat) | Goodreads

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20904184.Peter_Gribble

 

PURCHASE LINKS Book One - Threat                   

 

AMAZON.COM - https://amazon.com/dp/0228812194

 

AMAZON.CA - https://amazon.ca/dp/0228812194

 

AMAZON KINDLE - https://amazon.com/dp/B08NTQ69Q7

 

INDIGO CHAPTERS - https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/threat/9780228812197-item.html

 

BARNES & NOBLE - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/threat-peter-gribble/1138327338

 

PURCHASE LINKS Book Two - Within

 

AMAZON.COM - https://amazon.com/dp/0228826446

 

AMAZON.CA - https://amazon.ca/dp/0228826446

 

AMAZON KINDLE - https://amazon.com/dp/B09RLZP7DV

 

INDIGO CHAPTERS - https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/within/9780228826446-item.html

 

BARNES & NOBLE - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/within-peter-gribble/1140984426

 

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