A Shadow On The Water

The 2nd Berikatanyan Chronicles V2

by John Beresford

A Shadow on the Water - John Beresford - Berikatayan Chronicles

Part of the The 2nd Berikatanyan Chronicles series:

A distant, compelling mental summons drives Ru'ita to seek out its origin, accompanied by the other Elementals. But the source is not at the coast. It lies much further east, and the Silver Sea now lies between the Elementals and their ultimate destination.

Can they persuade a shipmaster to take them, when for generations they have avoided sailing east, fearing that they would fall off the edge of the world? And if such a voyage can be taken, what other strange encounters are waiting from them, beyond the farthest point anyone has navigated in living memory?

The Elementals' journey of discovery becomes a true voyage in this second book of the Second Berikatanyan Chronicles, where the natural forces they must battle with prove more sinister and terrifying than anything they have faced before!

Published: February 28, 2024
Publisher: Independently Published
Genres:

Fantasy, Fantasy - Contemporary, Fantasy - High & Other World, Fantasy - Sword & Sorcery, Sci Fi, Sci Fi - Distant Planet, Sci Fi - Science Fantasy

Tags:

author - british, format - book, format - kindle, format - kindle unlimited, format - novel >100K, format - paperback, format - self published, what - condition - blindness, what - topic - magic, where - non-Earth planet, who - occupation - mage, who - occupation - sailor, who - type - witch, who - type - wizard

Tropes: Band of Misfits, Quest
Word Count: 124703
Setting: Berikatanya
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters
Tropes: Band of Misfits, Quest
Word Count: 124703
Setting: Berikatanya
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters

About the Author

John Beresford has been writing seriously since 1968. Eventually some of his work began to appear in public. His first novel, War of Nutrition, was published for Kindle in February 2012 and was soon joined by two volumes of poetry.

Gatekeeper, the first of the Berikatanyan Chronicles series, arrived on June 1st 2015 and the sequels Water Wizard (February 2020), and Juggler (August 2021) completed that first trilogy. The Second Berikatanyan Chronicles, comprising A Dance In The Dark, A Shadow On The Water, and A Flame In The North, was completed in 2024. John is now working on his next project: a series of sci-fi thrillers based on the characters in War of Nutrition. Sign up to his mailing list at https://tinyurl.com/4mn8tcwv for the latest news and a copy of the prequel to the Chronicles: Berikatanyan Dawn.

John is also a songwriter. As "Beresford & Wallace" (with his musical partner Annie Wallace) he has recorded two albums - "Suburban Nostalgia" and "Weird and Wonderful" - which are available for download from Amazon.

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