Mysteries of the Eternal Ember Cup

Grim Stoneback raced the Eternal Ember Cup before. He's the only one alive who has. He doesn't talk about it much. What he will say is the track is alive, no two races are ever the same, and the creature inside the artifact at the center of it all is not interested in who crosses the finish line first. The Eternal Ember Cup has never been finished. Every skilled kart racer in the Ironwood Kingdom knows this. They show up anyway. The Ironwood Kingdom is not an ordinary place. Its racetracks cannot be mapped. Its terrain shifts. Its sacred lands answer to forces no king has ever commanded, not even Gavrak, who has spent his entire reign trying. Beneath his Summer Castle, buried deeper than anyone willingly goes, an ancient artifact pulses with light in a cavern too large to see the edges of. The creature inside it has been waiting there since before the kingdom had a name. King Gavrak just did what every king of his line is permitted to do only once, to initiate the Eternal Ember Cup. Every skilled kart racer in the kingdom answered. They came for the race, for the treasure, for the glory of standing in the presence of something that has broken every generation before them. This time, the Stoneback family showed up together. Rook is all about brute force. Pip is slick, sly, and quick. Hazey isn't entirely sure why he's here. And Juno is the youngest, sharpest, and the one Grim's been quietly preparing. Every faction in the kingdom sent its best. Some came to win the cup. Some came for the treasure rumored inside it. Some came because King Gavrak called the race, and refusing a king is its own kind of dangerous. None of them fully understand what they are walking into. The race is real, but what's controlling it is another question entirely. Mysteries of the Eternal Ember Cup is the first book of the Ironwood Kingdom Series. It's a dark allegorical fantasy for readers of C.S. Lewis, Ted Dekker, and Frank Peretti. The Ironwood Kingdom has rules older than its kings. Not everyone who enters comes back the same.

Pagina's: 79, Paperback, Independently published