Fires That Forge
Book I of the Epic Fantasy Series Lords of Order and Chaos
Murder. Betrayal. Magic?
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Fires That Forge
Murder. Betrayal. Magic? One knight takes up his hammer to hunt a killer concealed. When dark arts and faith face off, will sorcery or swordsmanship win out? What chance can a mere mortal have against vampires and demonic forces? Is King’s Inquisitor Dunewell prepared to break the laws he has sworn to serve to discover and defeat a master of shrouded evil? Where is the line between hero and villain, saint and sinner?
Kingdom of Lethanor, 1648. Inquisitor Dunewell stands strong in a city scarred by corruption. A true warrior for justice, the newly assigned investigator jumps into the fray when a close physician friend is accused of murder. Vowing to find the real monster, he enters a deadly race against time and the tip of the executioner’s blade.
Ordered by superiors to wrap up the case quickly, the honorable man-at-arms digs deeply into clues pointing to demons and forbidden powers. But as more aristocrats are found brutally slain and vampire attacks foment mayhem, Dunewell must hunt down a magical foe before his city falls into violent madness.
Fires that Forge is the first book in the gripping Lords of Order & Chaos epic fantasy series, one of four series in the Bloodlines Reforged Saga. If you like thrilling mysteries, hidden enemies, and fast-paced action, then you’ll love R. J. Hanson’s sword and sorcery tale.
Buy Fires that Forge and dispel the darkness today!
Book IV in the Bloodlines Reforged Saga
What readers say about the book🧐
RJ Hanson does a masterful job of presenting a massive original world through the eyes of a detective. Inquisitor Dunewell is Sherlock for his city, and gives the reader a unique view of the power players involved. I enjoyed hearing about the magic, monsters, and other fantasy elements from Dunewell as if they were normal everyday occupances.A refreshingly original story that kept me guessing the entire time. I'm looking forward to continue the story in book 2.Narrator Terry F Self delivers the tale with a solid performance. Adds just the right amount of accent to give the listener a sense of period, while not over doing the characters. You can clearly tell who is talking, but none of them come across as caricatures.
Mike C.
About the Author →
R.J. Hanson
RJ Hanson has two books on Amazon ranked #1 in epic fantasy and dark fantasy, Roland’s Path and Fires that Forge. RJ began developing the epic sword and sorcery saga, Bloodlines Reforged, in 1996. However, it was 2019 before the first book was published. The Bloodlines Reforged Saga tells the tales of a warrior’s courage, a scorned sorcerer’s revenge, a corrupt church’s perversion of faith, a grieving vampire dealing with loss, and a knight’s struggle to break his oath in order to fulfill it. You will find plenty of magic, monsters, sword fights, and political intrigue in this multi-series adventure.
RJ began his love for all things fantasy at the age of 5. In 1978, when his mother bought him the Rankin & Bass production of The Hobbit, a 24 page read along with the record children’s book, RJ’s imagination was opened to a new world. Reading Tolkien, R.A. Salvatore, Terry Brooks, Robert E. Howard, and even Stephen King, RJ began constructing worlds and characters of his own.
RJ began his writing career at forty-five. During the course of his life, he accumulated a number of real-world experiences that have given him a unique understanding of the human condition and a perspective that gives his writing an honest grit. He has also benefited from years of training ranging from interview and interrogation techniques to hand to hand combat to SWAT tactics. RJ is a certified Firearms Instructor and Linguistic Statement Analyst. He also enjoys the distinction of having scored a touch, or ‘touche’, against an Olympic fencer during a pickup match in college. He’s really too proud of it. He has been knocked out four times, his nose broken seven times, and his neck broken once. He knows a thing or two about describing experiences like those and that firsthand knowledge shines through in the action of his works.
In his youth, he worked as a cowboy, having grown up on a small ranch in north Texas. At the age of 16 he was selected for the TAMS (Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science) project at the University of North Texas. In his spare time, RJ has studied medieval combat and military tactics as well as arms and armaments of various cultures and times. RJ plays in a weekly pen and paper RPG game (Rolemaster) with some close family and friends and some of the characters played have been around since 1996! His adult children like to joke that some of the characters are older than they are.
RJ and his wife, Michelle, live on a small ranch where they maintain a modest heard of cattle, three rescued dogs (Pinker aka The Princess who is a deaf Great Dane, Rose aka Rowdy Girl who is a Great Dane and a bed-hog, and June aka June-Bug aka June-Buggy who is a Collie-Blue Healer mix), along with a variety of barn cats.
“Hanson’s very visceral writing style captures the breathtaking excitement, terror, and wonder of fantasy adventure that I’ve found in roleplaying, computer gaming, and classics of the genre…but is so often lacking in contemporary offerings. The mental world inhabited by his characters is very well developed. Combat scenes are invariably creative, well-thought, and realistic in a way that will please purists while remaining fast paced enough to satisfy others. And it is an intriguing blend of high and low fantasy: while inhabiting a gritty world and hardly infallible, the protagonists are high-minded people trying to do the right thing in an often complicated and confusing world. If you’re uncertain about your next fantasy read … just get this one.”
Award winning author Jon Black
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