A Crucible of Souls by Mitchell Hogan

A Crucible of Souls by Mitchell Hogan

Winner of the 2013 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy!

Mitchell Hogan, an imaginative new talent, makes his debut with the acclaimed first installment in the epic Sorcery Ascendant Sequence, A Crucible of Souls, a mesmerizing tale of high fantasy that combines magic, malevolence, and mystery.

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When young Caldan's parents are brutally slain, the boy is raised by monks who initiate him into the arcane mysteries of sorcery.

Growing up plagued by questions about his past, Caldan vows to discover who his parents were, and why they were violently killed. The search will take him beyond the walls of the monastery, into the unfamiliar and dangerous chaos of city life. With nothing to his name but a pair of mysterious heirlooms and a handful of coins, he must prove his talent to become apprenticed to a guild of sorcerers.

But the world outside the monastery is a darker place than he ever imagined, and his treasured sorcery has disturbing depths he does not fully understand. As a shadowed evil manipulates the unwary and forbidden powers are unleashed, Caldan is plunged into an age-old conflict that will bring the world to the edge of destruction.

Soon, he must choose a side, and face the true cost of uncovering his past.

Mitchell Hogan's love of fantasy novels began when he received The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy as gifts when he was eleven years old. With some school and university thrown in, he spent the following ten years reading, rolling dice, and playing computer games. He's amassed many bookshelves' worth of fantasy and science fiction novels along the road, and he has no plans to quit anytime soon. He put off his dream of writing for ten years before quitting his work and writing A Crucible of Souls. He now works full-time as a writer and is immensely thankful to the readers who trusted an unknown self-published author. His wife, Angela, and daughters, Isabelle and Charlotte, live in Sydney, Australia.