The Eunuch's Heir

Overview: I was born in California in the same year that Tolkein died (which I didn't find out until much later). I've lived in Illinois, Massachusetts, and now New Hampshire, with some wonderful summers in Colorado, and a few visits to Seattle thrown in the mix. After feeling like a misfit through Middle School, and finding a group of peers as geeky as myself in High School, I went off to Rhode Island School of Design with some vague notion of working for Jim Henson or Hollywood making creatures. Finding the program there to be too limiting for my needs, I withdrew and came home to seek my fortune. I finished my first book and promptly had it rejected by Del Rey. I started my second book, which remains unfinished to this day. I was primarily a poet, and self-published a couple of chapbooks, "Doubles or Metaphors" and "The Intimate Toes of Rome". I sold my first short story for the same amount of money as my first paid poem. Took about four years to write my third book, in fits and starts. I had my daughter in 2001 and feared I would never have time to write again. In response, I wrote faster. Productivity fell off a bit after the second child arrived in 2007. Nonetheless, I have just finished my thirteenth novel. The courage of Kattanan duRhys saved a kingdom and created a legend perhaps impossible to equal. Now his son, Wolfram duRhys, wild prince of the realm, spends his days wenching, carousing, and shunning the legacy of his revered father. But Wolfram's revelries end when his carefree existence is shattered by an assassination attempt—and he discovers the lie he's been living . . . and the dark destiny that awaits.Now the wayward son must flee to a distant land of magic and mystery—to enflame the love of a cloistered virgin, and the ire of a priestess who plans a bloody revenge. And suddenly the fate of an imperiled land rests with a reluctant prince who once lived for pleasure alone . . . and whose actions will either save his world or leave it smoldering in ruins. The courage of Kattanan duRhys saved a kingdom and created a legend perhaps impossible to equal. Now his son, Wolfram duRhys, wild prince of the realm, spends his days wenching, carousing, and shunning the legacy of his revered father. But Wolfram's revelries end when his carefree existence is shattered by an assassination attempt--and he discovers the lie he's been living ... and the dark destiny that awaits. Now the wayward son must flee to a distant land of magic and mystery--to enflame the love of a cloistered virgin, and the ire of a priestess who plans a bloody revenge. And suddenly the fate of an imperiled land rests with a reluctant prince who once lived for pleasure alone ... and whose actions will either save his world or leave it smoldering in ruins