Hard Times in Dragon City is a five-star fantasy mystery, written by Matt Forbeck. It is fast paced and engaging. The settings were fresh and inventive. Each word was placed just right, from the goblin town chase to the verbal sparring with Yabair, from the character development to the world building, nothing was superfluous. The author effortlessly brought orcs and hobbits, elves and wizards to life. If you enjoy epic fantasies or intriguing mysteries, you’ll enjoy the Shotguns and Sorcery series.
Synopsis:
Hard Times Have Come to Dragon City
Retired adventurer Max Gibson has seen better times. Ever since he and his treasure-hunting friends struck it big and called it quits a decade back, it seems like things have slid downhill.
It’s hard enough to scrape by in a sprawling mountain city in which elves and dwarves live higher than humans in every way. It’s worse at night, when the groans of the zombies laying an eternal siege to the city provide a ceaseless reminder that the Dragon Emperor himself is the only thing that keeps the hordes of hungry dead from storming the walls.
When Max is called in to help invesigate the wholesale slaughter of a long-dead dwarf friend’s family, he thinks maybe he’s finally hit bottom. Then the love of his life — the elf who left him when their careers as adventurers ended — walks back through his door, desperate for his help and with nowhere else to turn.
It’s not getting any easier. That’s for sure.
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Ellie Ann is an author and an editor for Stonehouse Ink Publishing. Check out her new thriller, , and the upcoming , she co-authored with #1 Amazon bestseller Aaron Patterson. Her first solo novel, a YA science fiction called The Silver Sickle, will be released by Stonehouse Ink this Spring. Something else that tickles her fancy is working with transmedia books at Noble Beast Publishing, where she is a producer, author, and editor.
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