Today is the day – To Ashes We Run’s release day!
It’s a surreal thing to sit in bed reading a book that you wrote. For so long it was just words in a document on my computer. That’s it. A story that existed in my head, for me.
Now it’s a physical book. With paper and ink and a bookish soul of its own.
And I just stare and keep opening and closing it.
“…Is this mine?”
Maybe it was, once. But it’s going to be the world’s in just a few days, and I still don’t feel “ready” for that. It’s like a bookish kid going off to college. I can’t believe it’s all grown up and I’m not prepared for it to leave me.
I did a reading of the little prologue over on YouTube!
BLURB:
Dieon used to lead his people. Now he must protect them from himself…
and from the one who possessed him.
Echofall needs an izdihar, the bridge between realms, but every girl they take becomes a witch. In desperation they reclaim their original izdihar. The one who broke them. Adisa.
Abandoned by Echofall and stripped of the power she once had, the Queen of Witches rises. She lives to see Adisa burn. But Adisa’s soul is transferred into Dieon, and he has control of their shared body.
Dieon is desperate to free his clan from their curse. Adisa only wants to escape his pursuer. Their coexistence is becoming increasingly unstable. If they don’t find a way to separate their merging minds, neither of them will survive long enough to face—or outrun—the witch’s flames.
The contract has been signed.
Echofall claims you.
BUY LINKS:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2Ch6N2i
Barnes & Noble: https://bit.ly/2J83zUH
Kobo: https://bit.ly/2F8thVc
Goodreads: https://bit.ly/2XQdxNM
Facebook Release Party on the 19th!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1131665060339369/
Readers’ Favorite 5 Star Review:
| “To Ashes We Run is a work of powerful epic fantasy created by author Just B. Jordan, and is the second novel of the Echofall Rising series. In this return to Echofall, we focus on Dieon and Adisa, who were once separate entities each with their own problems. When Adisa’s soul is transferred into a shared coexistence inside Dieon’s body, however, complications arise. Not only is the coexistence and shared energy draining them both dry, but they each have missions to achieve to ensure their safety; that of their people, and to escape from the clutches of the Queen of Witches and her anger towards Adisa, and Echofall as a whole.
This was a complex novel that took me a little while to get into, but the effort is well worth it for fans of solid, immersive world building and complex, far-reaching fantasy novels. Echofall builds with a fascinating magical system that involves a lot of travel between realms, and transference of consciousnesses, soul magic and psychological drama. All of this is well contained in a relatively small cast of central characters who go about their missions in a style reminiscent of Tolkien, where the good work of a few can outweigh the dangers of the many. I enjoyed the witch queen especially as an antagonist, a powerful scorned figure with legitimate contempt and good logic behind the villain’s motivations. Overall, I found To Ashes We Run to be an excellent read that is worthy of a place on any fantasy fan’s shelves.” |
Just B. Jordan is an award-winning author of fantasy and sci-fi. She graduated high school a year early and received her first publishing contract at the age of 18. To Ashes We Run is her most recent novel. Find it here.
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