Ashes to Embers

By Michelle Schad

Reven Si’ahl does not know why Power burns in his veins. He does not know why he sees shattered glimpses of a life unknown to him, nor does he know the identity of the voice in his mind that calls him Beloved. All he knows is life as a bard, walking the perilously thin line between glory and agonizing failure with Liam and Ajana, the pair of thieves who helped him recover from the barren ashes of insanity where they found him five years prior.
Now, their tenuous, sometimes volatile trio is expanding with a mysterious acquisition and a new urchin apprentice from a fallen Empire. Both bring Reven’s carefully crafted reality crashing down around him during a time when the demons of the Spell-Forged Crater push forward into Kormaine to tear apart the human-run nation as they did to the tirsai. What were once chaotic visions of a life unknown rapidly become terrifying nightmares of things to come – of things Reven has already lived through once before...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chaos Publications
• Release date: Mar 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9781954413016

Michelle Schad

From a young age, there have been voices inside of Michelle's head. No, not those kinds of voices - or, maybe they are; who really knows? Rather than fear those voices, Michelle wrangled them like wild mustangs on the prairie, make each one bend to her will in its own time. Well, what does that mean?It means that Michelle has been writing stories of the fantastic, the horrific, and the mysterious for as long as her little fingers have been able to hold a pen and probably longer, but memory only goes back so far. In a world that passes for 'normal', she is all of the 'normal' things one might expect: mother, wife, keeper of fur-babies. She is also a student of life, meaning if there is something to learn, she will learn it, thus making her a veritable font of only partially useful knowledge.The whimsy and ChAoS that actually controls the rest of Michelle's existence has earned her a place in two different arenas so far: Bards and Sages Quarterly and Corrugated Sky Publishing. While wielding the unwieldiness of words is her primary function, she is also an avid crafter, collector of "creepy" ball-jointed dolls, and can run through a Target in under an hour with only two extra items from her intended list. Talent!