Valkura - (Shared World) by Chadwick Ginther (Paperback)

About the Book

From the Aurora-winning author of Khyber comes a saga of linked tales set in Valkura--a kingless land of rime-crusted coasts where nightmares become reality. As witches and warriors battle beasts and betrayal to unlock the Secret Moon, a new torchbearer must rise to relight the lost magic and drive the shadow emperors back into the dark.

Book Synopsis

A new entry in the SHARED WORLD series of standalone books of sword-and-sorcery fantasy/horror. A collection of linked stories from the Aurora-award-winning author of KHYBER and the THUNDER ROAD trilogy tells the tale of VALKURA, a kingless land of rime-crusted coasts where dreams become nightmares and nightmares reality. A land of blood fed upon the bones of heroes. Where witches and warriors, reavers and revenants face beasts and betrayal as they strive to unlock the mysteries of the Secret Moon.

About the Author

Chadwick Ginther is the author of the Thunder Road trilogy, Graveyard Mind, and over thirty short stories. His story "All Cats Go to Valhalla" won the 2021 Prix Aurora Award for Best Short Story, and his short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies.

Chadwick's novels have won the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher and the Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction and been nominated for the Prix Aurora Award for Best Novel, the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Author, the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, and the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction.

A bookseller for over twenty years, when he's not writing books he's reading them. Chadwick lives and writes in Winnipeg, Canada, spinning sagas set in the wild spaces of Canada's western wilderness, where surely monsters must exist.