The Battle of Sapphire Bay
(2026)(The second book in the Tidestone Chronicles series)
A novel by Nicholas Wolf
The last thing Hawk remembers is tackling the dreaded pirate Rak-Tak off the deck of the Suncatcher, watching Nyomi pilot the airship to safety, and plummeting into the roiling waters of the Crimson Mists.
He awakens not in the Depths, but in the glowing heart of an ancient Atlantyan tower known as the Sanctuary, tended by the enigmatic Atlantyan Malychai and his inscrutable automaton companion, Davyd. Relief turns to devastation when Hawk learns the terrible cost of his salvation: Nyomi's life. Channeling the power of the Five Moons, she summoned a colossal wave that carried him to shore, but the effort has left her trapped in a state between life and death, perhaps forever.
Her heroic act came at an even steeper price: it extinguished a narrow corridor through the Crimson Mists, exposing the hidden Sanctuary to the outside world for the first time since the Maelstrom. As war looms over Sapphire Bay, darker forces awaken within the tower: Urthanq, the bloodthirsty war golem Hawk once trusted with his life, now shows chilling signs of independent sentience… or perhaps its clockwork mind has been claimed by another.
Hawk vows to guard Nyomi’s still form for as long as it takes, even if she never awakens. Yet as battle engulfs Sapphire Bay, the deadliest threat may lurk not among invading fleets or treacherous alliances, but in the one person Sister Margaret entrusted to protect Nyomi. Diving into Malychai’s preserved memories of Atlantyoc before the Maelstrom, Hawk uncovers a terrifying possibility: in his desperation to save Nyomi, he may have delivered her straight into the grasp of the ancient enemy that has hunted her across a thousand New Moons.
Genre: Fantasy
He awakens not in the Depths, but in the glowing heart of an ancient Atlantyan tower known as the Sanctuary, tended by the enigmatic Atlantyan Malychai and his inscrutable automaton companion, Davyd. Relief turns to devastation when Hawk learns the terrible cost of his salvation: Nyomi's life. Channeling the power of the Five Moons, she summoned a colossal wave that carried him to shore, but the effort has left her trapped in a state between life and death, perhaps forever.
Her heroic act came at an even steeper price: it extinguished a narrow corridor through the Crimson Mists, exposing the hidden Sanctuary to the outside world for the first time since the Maelstrom. As war looms over Sapphire Bay, darker forces awaken within the tower: Urthanq, the bloodthirsty war golem Hawk once trusted with his life, now shows chilling signs of independent sentience… or perhaps its clockwork mind has been claimed by another.
Hawk vows to guard Nyomi’s still form for as long as it takes, even if she never awakens. Yet as battle engulfs Sapphire Bay, the deadliest threat may lurk not among invading fleets or treacherous alliances, but in the one person Sister Margaret entrusted to protect Nyomi. Diving into Malychai’s preserved memories of Atlantyoc before the Maelstrom, Hawk uncovers a terrifying possibility: in his desperation to save Nyomi, he may have delivered her straight into the grasp of the ancient enemy that has hunted her across a thousand New Moons.
Genre: Fantasy