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The Great Contagion: A Merliss Tale: The Merliss Tales, #1
The Great Contagion: A Merliss Tale: The Merliss Tales, #1
The Great Contagion: A Merliss Tale: The Merliss Tales, #1
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The Great Contagion: A Merliss Tale: The Merliss Tales, #1

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Plagues kill but Merliss has far more to fear than a disease.


Merliss is no ordinary cat. She's a young girl's spirit trapped in a cat's body. While the magic that banished her has snatched away her ability to speak to humans, it has given her a life spanning millennia. For centuries she has lived with the cunning folk, assisting their efforts to heal the sick and ward off malevolent creatures. Now a bleeding sickness has thrown the medieval community into chaos.

 

The cunning man Hailaird and his apprentice Fendrel are in danger from the disease. The life Merliss has worked so long to build is in jeopardy. Before she entered the cat, she had trained to be a shaman. Do her centuries of experience hold a secret to a cure? But disease isn't her only nemesis.

 

A pair of malevolent creatures have crossed the moor into the forest, threatening more havoc. With disease and monsters ravaging the land, Merliss is hard-pressed to survive. It couldn't be worse, until a mob looking for a scapegoat turns its wrath on Merliss. Tooth and claw and magic may not be enough.

 

The Great Contagion is the gripping first novel in the dark fantasy Merliss Tales series. If you like strong and dynamic characters, rich description, magic and intrigue, then you'll love Jeff Chapman's Merliss Tales.

 

Get The Great Contagion today to see Merliss use her wits and magic to rescue her friends and herself.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherJeff Chapman
Release dateDec 12, 2019
ISBN9798223912774
The Great Contagion: A Merliss Tale: The Merliss Tales, #1
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Jeff Chapman

Jeff Chapman explores fantasy worlds through fiction and is the author of The Merliss Tales fantasy series, The Huckster Tales weird western series, and The Comic Cat Tales series. Trained in history and computer science, Jeff writes software by day and explores the fantastic when he should be sleeping. His fiction ranges from fairy tales to fantasy to ghost stories. He's not ashamed to say he's addicted to dark hot chocolate and he loves cats. Jeff lives with his wife, children, and cats in a house with more books than bookshelf space.

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