Mage
Revealed
Book Two of The
Magic Withheld series
Struck
with enough malevolent Spirit to turn him into a raving beast
of a man, Bert Reese fights to remain human. Alone, he walks a
slender path between sanity and madness. Then, an unlikely source
enters his life to help—one of the now-hated mages.
But
Ashleigh is different and calms his butchered senses. Her
fierce nature is the only rock that stands between him and the
crevasse that is beast. In all ways, she walks beside him toward a
new beginning. But at the end of their journey lies the one who used
Spirit against him. Questions arise; did Tiarra, head of the
Imperium, lose her magic, die, or simply give way to the new order?
Or, like a spider, does she wait for a mage to blunder into her web?
Forced
on him without a care for his humanity, Bert is the mage who
should not exist, born with a different kind of magic.
And
the gates of Hell are no match for the magic he wields.
Author C.D.
Coffelt’s world of magic started in
Wilder Mage with the
words
“The earthquake wasn’t his fault. Not this time.”
It continues in
Mage Revealed, the second book of the
three-part series. Watch the book trailer on
YouTube.
Excerpt
from Mage Revealed
Energy
slithered around him, encased him and…
Bonded.
All
the elements slammed into him at once filling him like a bursting
dam, sloshing into a maelstrom of Fire, Earth, Air, Water, and
Spirit. Magic filled him, cascaded into every pore of his skin until
there was nothing left that was of his essence.
He
raised his arms. “I am a wizard,” he said.
His
words echoed, like the roll of a bass drum in an empty coliseum.
From
his fingertips, fluid lightning forked and shot into the empty sky. A
violent whirlwind as tall as he wanted it to be caught up a whirl of
leaves. A roar of Fire sprang from the palms of his hands, crowned
his head. And Spirit, the silvery element waited for his command, to
charge into any foray he so chose.
He
turned to the panting women, frozen in the grip of panic and fright.
“I
am a wizard,” he said again.
C.D. Coffelt
lives outside Skidmore, Missouri with a bemused husband and way too
many cats. She is a member of the Missouri Writers Guild. But despite
that bit of conventionality, she adores all things fantasy with a
special love for urban and epic.
With a passion
for good writing and Doritos as companions, locating Middle-Earth on
a dusty road in rural Missouri wasn’t difficult. All it took was a
little Magic, hours of reading, and an overactive imagination.
Find her books at
Amazon
and
Barnes
and Noble.
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