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2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Gold Medalist
2023 RONE Award Gold Medalist
2023 Reader’s Favorite Silver Medalist
A healer and dabbler in the dark arts of life and death, Barus is as gnarled as an ancient tree. Forgotten in the chaos of the dying queen’s chamber, he spirits away her stillborn infant and in a hovel at the meadow’s edge, breathes life into the wisp of a child. He names her Aster for the lea’s white flowers. Raised as his daughter, she, too, learns to heal death.
Denied a living heir, the widowed king spies from a distance. But he heeds the claims of the fiery Vicar of the Red Order—in the eyes of the Blessed One, Aster is an abomination, and to embrace the evil of resurrection will doom his rule.
As the king’s life nears its end, he defies the vicar’s warning and summons the necromancer’s daughter. For his boldness, he falls to an assassin’s blade. Armed with righteousness and iron-clad conviction, the Order’s brothers ride into the leas to cleanse the land of evil.
To save her father’s life, Aster leads them beyond Verdane’s wall into the Forest of Silvern Cats, a wilderness of dragons and barbarian tribes. Unprepared for a world rife with danger and unchecked power, a world divided by those who practice magic and those who hunt them, she must choose whether to trust the one man offering her aid, the one man most likely to betray her—her enemy’s son.
From best-selling fantasy author D. Wallace Peach comes a retelling of the legend of Kwan-yin, the Chinese Goddess of Mercy. Set in a winter world of dragons, intrigue, and magic, The Necromancer’s Daughter is a story about duty, defiance, cruelty, and sacrifice—an epic tale of compassion and deep abiding love where good and evil aren’t what they seem.
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A truly beautiful tale. I bought this book because I admire Peach’s writing style and flowing narratives. I wasn’t disappointed! This is a stand alone novel that explores life and death, faith and tyranny, war and peace. It is heroic and epic in style with characters who are real and descriptions that leave the reader with vivid images and impressions without slowing the action. I loved the story of a simple healing life that’s interrupted by the outside world. It’s written from three viewpoints; a necromancer, his adopted daughter and a religious soldier. This is a story that lingers in one’s mind and soul. Peach never preaches, simply shows by thought and deed, the many sides of war, peace and the liberty to choose what we want to believe. If you’ve never read Peach’s work, this is a great one to start with. If you’re already a fan of Peach, you need to read this!