Bronze Magic – The Sorcerer’s Oath, Book 1
The two sorcerers circled each other, each protected within his shield. Suddenly, Tarkyn’s shield winked out, and he stood exposed but safe as long as Andoran was putting his energy into maintaining his shield. Andoran was now a step behind in the attack. After feinting right, then left, the red-headed sorcerer threw himself to the left, winked out his shield, and thrust a shaft of power at the prince. But Tarkyn anticipated him, and as he sidestepped the red attack, he drove a rod of power at Andoran that caught him cleanly in the chest. Andoran yelped with pain.
The referee blew his whistle, and Tarkyn was declared the winner. As the prince reached out to haul his opponent up and shake his hand, tumultuous applause erupted from thousands of watching sorcerers. They rushed onto the arena, young and old, rich and poor, eagerly clustering around their victorious prince but were kept at bay by a ring of protective guards. Tarkyn grinned and waved in response, then placed his arm across his worthy opponent’s shoulder to draw him into the congratulations. Andoran mastered his disappointment enough to produce a rueful smile and wave his acknowledgement to the crowd.
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Jennifer Jane Ealey
Jennifer Jane Ealey was born in outback Western Australia, where her father studied kangaroos at a research station one hundred miles from the nearest town.
Biography.
Her arrival into the world was watched unexpectedly by their pet kangaroo, who had hopped into the hospital. Having survived the excitement of her birth, she moved first to Perth and then Melbourne, where she spent most of her formative years. She took a year off to ride a motorbike around Australia before working as a mathematics teacher and school psychologist in England and Australia, a bicycle courier in London, and a pub owner in outback New South Wales.
She now lives in a country town just outside Melbourne, working by day as a psychologist and beavering away by night as a novelist. She has written two detective novels and has just completed The Sorcerer’s Oath, a series of four fantasy novels: Bronze Magic, Wizard’s Curse, The Lost Forest, and The Wizardess.