The Heron Kings Rampant

When his apprentice is wounded in a terrorist bombing, Master Alchemist Castamar wants answers. The country stands on the verge of an industrial age ushered in by the mysterious energetic substance known as Vril. But revolutionary technology brings revolutionary ideas, and someone is using it to bring the kingdom to its knees. Cast's search leads him to the Heron Kings, folk heroes of old thought lost to history and legend. But some legends die hard. Ellyx, the band's top thief and forger, joins Cast to hunt the culprits down and plumb the depths of his past for clues. When they learn that fanatics led by a shadowy Duchess have devised a terrifying variant of Vril that can decimate entire cities, Cast and the last of the Heron Kings will race to prevent a war of mass destruction.

By day Eric Lewis is a research scientist weathering the latest rounds of mergers and layoffs and still trying to remember how to be a person again long after surviving grad school. In addition to subjecting his writing to one rejection after another, he can be found gathering to himself as many different sharp and pointies as possible and searching for the perfect hiking trail or archery range. Don't ask where, because he's never lived anywhere for longer than five years.
His debut novel The Heron Kings and the sequel The Heron Kings' Flight are available now. His short fiction has been published in Nature, Cossmass Infinities, Hybrid Fiction, Electric Spec, Allegory, Bards and Sages Quarterly, the anthologies Crash Code, Into Darkness Peering, Best Indie Speculative Fiction Vol. 1, the short story collections As It Seems and Tricks of the Blade and many other venues detailed at ericlewis.ink.