Champions of Verlaine 2

About the Book

Both of the elven girls stood slowly and began casting their enchantments. Thea's spell was finished a slight bit ahead of Iliryle's and the area was suddenly brightened by a twin-pronged bolt of lighting that shot from her palm. The bolt struck unerringly at the supposed hobgoblin leader and it blasted him to a cinder. The roar of thunder following the bolt arrived as a swelling ball of mage fire swam toward the cluster of enemies at the base of the small hill.

Thea and Iliryle were just close enough to see flashes of fear cross many of the hobgoblins' faces as they recognized that rapidly expanding ball of death. A flash and blast of sound indicated the arrival of the fiery ball and those caught in its blast were enveloped in flames. Cries and howls of pain came up toward Iliryle and Thea but they were too busy ducking as Hawkwind and the elven archers darted onto the hilltop.

A story of high magic, adventure and flashing swordplay set against the background of five small nations locked in bitter conflict!! The continuing exploits of Hawkwind the Bard and his companions.

About the Author

The author of the Hawkwind the Bard series of novels, Granvil A. Pennington, a NASA Flight Director for over 30 Shuttle Missions, has been a major participant in the nations Space Program as a ground flight controller since the Apollo Program. To work on the forefront of space, a person must have imagination and intense desire to help lead us beyond Earth and this imagination finds many outlets. A role player himself for twenty odd years, playing online games and intense reading of the great works of SCI-Fiction and Medieval Fantasy give him a sound basis for writing in this area of Fiction. Mr. Pennington makes his home in Houston, Texas along with his wife, two children and three cats?which everyone knows the cats are required for any serious novelist. The Hawkwind the Bard novels are written for those who are or have been Role-Players and for those that love adventure.