{"id":248,"date":"2013-02-15T05:57:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T11:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=248"},"modified":"2013-02-15T08:57:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T14:57:21","slug":"introducing-the-shadowhand-covenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/introducing-the-shadowhand-covenant\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing&#8230;.THE SHADOWHAND COVENANT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A comment I&#8217;ve seen a few times in regards to THE VENGEKEEP PROPHECIES is that many people are glad it works as a standalone book but they also hope there are more adventures on the way for Jaxter and company. \u00c2\u00a0And I&#8217;ve mentioned before that, yes, VENGEKEEP is the first of a trilogy and I&#8217;ve offered hints about the second book but nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>Now, finally, I&#8217;m pleased to reveal the cover of Book Two:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_249\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ShadowhandCovenant-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-249\" alt=\"ShadowhandCovenant small\" src=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ShadowhandCovenant-small-198x300.jpg\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ShadowhandCovenant-small-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ShadowhandCovenant-small-677x1024.jpg 677w, https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ShadowhandCovenant-small.jpg 844w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s okay. You can click it. It&#8217;ll embiggen.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no official synopsis yet but here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve come up with by way of teaser:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>All is not well in the Five Provinces: the High Laird is making irrational&#8211;and unpopular&#8211;decrees, the peace-loving Sarosans have gone into hiding, charged with a crime they didn&#8217;t commit, and the most elite thieves in the land, the Shadowhands, are vanishing. Unwillingly thrown into the chaos, Jaxter and his thieving family&#8217;s investigation into the matter uncovers a conspiracy that could mean the end of magic forever.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The stunning cover art is, again, by the amazing Brett Helquist. The release is a way&#8217;s off&#8211;October 22, 2013, to be precise&#8211;but, as any author will tell you, the existence of a cover makes it\u00c2\u00a0<em>that<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<em>much<\/em> more real.<\/p>\n<p>Now tell me my cover is pretty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comment I&#8217;ve seen a few times in regards to THE VENGEKEEP PROPHECIES is that many people are glad it works as a standalone book but they also hope there are more adventures on the way for Jaxter and company. \u00c2\u00a0And I&#8217;ve mentioned before that, yes, VENGEKEEP is the first of a trilogy and I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}