A Reign of Blood and Magic
The Scarlett Mark, Book 1
An entertaining romance for sword-and-sorcery fans.
Kirkus Reviews
…makes me nostalgic for all those old epic fantasies that first got me interested in writing.
Jo Niederhoff, Manhattan Book Review
Author Abby Lane unleashes a heroine-focused fantasy saga that boldly stands above a crowded genre with The Scarlett Mark.
Self-Publishing Review
Book Description
The first novel in Abby Lane’s Reign of Blood and Magic series “reprises beauty-and-the-beast themes with feisty characters and richly intriguing witchery.” —Kirkus Reviews
A Lord cursed for sixteen years.
A Princess manipulated by sorcery.
One enchanted evening is their only deliverance.
Seeking justice, Princess Scarlett challenges her stepbrother with a serpentine ordeal, unaware that her treasonous act will endanger her father the king, threaten her two royal sisters, and play into the premeditated plans of her stepmother—the queen.
A wicked sorceress, the scheming sovereign has an agenda of her own to steal the throne and rid the castle of her stepchildren. Soon condemned to death, a risk saves the princess from execution, but forces the queen to banish her from the kingdom, delivering her to certain death.
Cursed by the same spiteful witch, Lord Nicolai is most dangerous when transformed. Feared by everyone, he can’t see an end to his beastly life until the princess arrives at his ghostly manor. When a chase ensues to break the curse, the princess risks everything to save Lord Nicolai.
Will a remedy be found in time, and how might the solution impact an evil queen, should the Scarlett Mark prevail?
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The Ebony Queen, Book 2
The otherworldly effects are vivid and well rendered in this energetic tale.
Kirkus Reviews
The story is rich and complex, with numerous engaging protagonists that make the prose dynamic, immersive, and ideal for fans of epic fantasy.
Self-Publishing Review
In The Ebony Queen, Lane takes us into a dark world of myth and magic. Her images are dark and evocative and at times entirely too realistic.
Katie O’Connor
Book Description
The second novel in Abby Lane’s Reign of Blood and Magic series“…is rich and complex, with numerous engaging protagonists that make the prose dynamic, immersive, and ideal for fans of epic fantasy.” Self-Publishing Review
A Queen’s quest for supremacy.
A Royal family threatened by the vengeance.
A Solomanic triangle is their means to deliverance.
Seeking revenge, Queen Cynara signs a blood contract with the devil Daemonis to gain new powers and enable her to conjure the highest level of Solomanic magic. Using an invocation spell, she shadows three princesses movements and tests her circle’s potential in the king’s forest, a forest the people say shelters evil. The action inters Ruby to a dark fate, binds Rose to the sea, and threatens Scarlett in a place that should earn peace, not further harm. Not even a god is safe from the queen’s sorcery.
But power comes with a price and unbeknownst to Cynara, the devil has a secret strategy. When a blood moon eclipses the night, Cynara invokes her magic in the king’s forest. Will her quest for supremacy prevail, and how might it challenge the current King Lowell, The Ebony Queen’s own son?
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The Immortal Blood, Book 3
Available October 26, 2021
The colorful worldbuilding, gave me an impressively immersing and deep reading experience . . . Immortal Blood is quite brilliant in some ways.
Foluso Falaye, San Francisco Book Review
A wonderful tale with magic, witches, gods, and a battle for power and supremacy . . . a thoroughly fascinating read.
Fangirling Over Frappes, Reedsy Discovery
Book Description
The third novel in Abby Lane’s Reign of Blood and Magic series“…gave me an impressively immersing and deep reading experience. .” San Francisco Review
An Immortal lost for eons.
A Goddess barren without his love.
The Queen is ill-prepared to address the state of affairs.
In The Immortal Blood, the third novel in A Reign of Blood and Magic, when Queen Cynara summons magic iWhen Queen Cynara summoned magic in the king’s forest, she had no idea a stolen power would cripple her, or that a special orb had let loose a single droplet of blood. Now, immortal blood is multiplying and breeding with living creatures, beings that include the statue of an undead king.
Resurrected from the dead, Anastacio once lived in the Otherworld. With his godly life reborn, he resolves to Resurrected from the dead, Anastacio once lived in the Otherworld. With his godly life reborn, he resolves to find the goddess from his past and avenge the injustice done to both of them. But to thrive, in life and in health, he must obtain a cure from someone without trust. Queen Cynara holds the answers that may well deliver a solution, but she’s trapped inside her frozen body, similar to the king she encased in mortar.
Why would anyone help an evil queen?
How will a god avenge his past while everyone believes he’s the king? How might his odd behavior affect the privy council, a former queen, or a true born prince whose secret has been kept from everyone? Norse goddesses plot the ultimate revenge; some plans will succeed and others will fail, but when Cynara’s taken to the Netherworld, an enemy hated by everyone could claim victory—again.
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