Beyond the Dead River
(2027)(The third book in the Sharp Steel and High Adventure series)
A novel by William Alan Webb
No one returns from the Dead River. Alden Havenwulf is about to find out why.
Near the black and brooding shores of dark Umbonnonika, where the tide itself seems to writhe with old malignancy, reavers and sailors mutter the accursed name of the Dead River in waterfront dens where lamplight fears to reach the corners.
They speak of ships that vanish without a trace. Of dragons overhead, and jungles where the dead come back to life as shambling horrors. Most dismiss the stories as drunken nonsense; only a few know their truth.
Driven into the cursed land of Umbonnonika by a raging storm, Alden Havenwulf and his companions suddenly find themselves trapped in a forgotten world, where ancient gods fight for control of fetid wastelands, monstrous crocodiles rule the waterways, and every mile of steaming jungle hides something eager to kill.
Waiting for them is Xalvadora.
Beautiful beyond reason, deadly beyond imagination, as High Priestess of the Crocodile God, she commands blood magic older than kingdoms and creatures that should exist only in nightmares. It is a realm from which no outsider has ever escaped.
Alden, along with his indomitable sister Arika, the mighty Disdan warrior Dexter Reedman, and the fearsome bearlike Icthnonian Setvan, now find themselves in her realm, and they will once more have to battle pirates, dragons, jungle predators, and an evil civilization lost to history itself.
To save themselves, they will have to cross the Dead River. The hardest part will be getting back out.
From bestselling author William Alan Webb comes another thrilling adventure in the Alden Havenwulf Saga, an epic journey filled with savage combat, lost cities, ancient mysteries, terrifying monsters, blood-soaked temples, dark sorcery, and the kind of larger-than-life heroes that made sword and sorcery a legendary genre.
If you long for the epic adventures of Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fritz Leiber, and Karl Edward Wagner, then sharpen your steel and get ready for high adventure…
The jungle is waiting.
Genre: Fantasy
Near the black and brooding shores of dark Umbonnonika, where the tide itself seems to writhe with old malignancy, reavers and sailors mutter the accursed name of the Dead River in waterfront dens where lamplight fears to reach the corners.
They speak of ships that vanish without a trace. Of dragons overhead, and jungles where the dead come back to life as shambling horrors. Most dismiss the stories as drunken nonsense; only a few know their truth.
Driven into the cursed land of Umbonnonika by a raging storm, Alden Havenwulf and his companions suddenly find themselves trapped in a forgotten world, where ancient gods fight for control of fetid wastelands, monstrous crocodiles rule the waterways, and every mile of steaming jungle hides something eager to kill.
Waiting for them is Xalvadora.
Beautiful beyond reason, deadly beyond imagination, as High Priestess of the Crocodile God, she commands blood magic older than kingdoms and creatures that should exist only in nightmares. It is a realm from which no outsider has ever escaped.
Alden, along with his indomitable sister Arika, the mighty Disdan warrior Dexter Reedman, and the fearsome bearlike Icthnonian Setvan, now find themselves in her realm, and they will once more have to battle pirates, dragons, jungle predators, and an evil civilization lost to history itself.
To save themselves, they will have to cross the Dead River. The hardest part will be getting back out.
From bestselling author William Alan Webb comes another thrilling adventure in the Alden Havenwulf Saga, an epic journey filled with savage combat, lost cities, ancient mysteries, terrifying monsters, blood-soaked temples, dark sorcery, and the kind of larger-than-life heroes that made sword and sorcery a legendary genre.
If you long for the epic adventures of Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fritz Leiber, and Karl Edward Wagner, then sharpen your steel and get ready for high adventure…
The jungle is waiting.
Genre: Fantasy