The Sapphire Manticore by Marie Andreas

The Sapphire Manticore by Marie Andreas

Murderous magic, vanished races, killer relics, and drunken faeries--who knew the end of the world would look like this? The story that began in The Glass Gargoyle, The Obsidian Chimera, and The Emerald Dragon continues.

Taryn St. Giles thought she knew all about elves. She dreamed of the long vanished elves as a child and has spent the past fifteen years digging through their abandoned ruins in Beccia. Six months ago, Taryn found out everything she thought she knew about the elves was wrong.

Two weeks ago she found out how very wrong she'd been.

Taryn and Alric have been captured to answer for crimes against a long lost people. Crimes that could bring down an entire kingdom and revolve around a small, glass gargoyle. Part of a weapon that destroyed an extremely powerful race, now only known as the Ancients, it, and its fellow pieces are deadly to any who have them. Knowledge of the relics found by Taryn and Alric have spread far. Dangerous bands of long dead creatures, ghosts, and nightmares out of myths are waking up and hunting for the relics. And Taryn.

Marie is an avid reader of fantasy and science fiction who also has a significant writing problem. She'd be prowling around coffee shops irritating total strangers with her stories if she wasn't writing about all the people in her thoughts. Writing is, in essence, a means of saving the masses. The Glass Gargoyle, the first book in her Lost Ancients trilogy, was released in March 2015, followed by The Obsidian Chimera in the fall of 2015, and The Emerald Dragon in the winter of 2015/2016. The remaining novels in the series (a total of six are planned) will be released in 2016 and 2017.

Marie enjoys visiting the UK when she isn't saving the public from coffee shop hijinks, and she continues dreaming that someone will give her a wonderful summer property in the Forest of Dean. Please visit her website at www.marieandreas.com to learn more about the novels and upcoming series--especially if you chance to have a tiny cottage to donate.