by Deborah Cannon (Author)
Part Two of Deborah Cannon's epic adventure THE PIRATE EMPRESS War rages on the Wall and pirates tyrannize the south coast. Li's young son is kidnapped. Her soldier lover defends the frontiers, and her warlock grandfather battles the sorcery behind the Empire's collapse. She is abandoned to the mercy of the pirates where a nine-headed water god rules the seas and a cruel admiral makes her his wife. In this frightening new world Li discovers she has powers of her own. She learns how to fight and to survive-with the goal to rescue her son. "A Sweeping Odyssey, captivating from cover to cover." - Midwest Book Review (MBR Bookwatch USA)
Author Biography
Deborah Cannon grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her fiction is inspired by her career as an archaeologist, which took her from Canada's west coast to England, the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga and finally to the shores of Lake Ontario where she continues to be fascinated by myths, legends and cryptids. In 2013 she won an honourable mention for her short story Twilight Glyph in the Canadian Tales of the Fantastic contest and in 2014 her story "Tang's Christmas Miracle" appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas in Canada. Her career as a science fiction/fantasy writer began when she sold two short stories to Farsector SFFH magazine. She has contributed to the Canadian Writer's Guide and is best known for The Raven Chronicles, a series of paranormal archaeological suspense novels and a time slip series for young adults, The Pirate Vortex. Recently she launched a fiction series of Kindle Short Reads called Close Encounters of the Cryptid Kind. Her latest release The Pirate Empress is her first Chinese epic fantasy. She lives in Hamilton, Ontario with her archaeologist husband and two Shih-poos, working on future titles for these series.
Number of Pages: 176
Dimensions: 0.38 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: June 15, 2015
