Or at least that’s what I hope will happen if the author sees fit to write a sequel to this brilliant tale. It is a book filled with impressive imagery and ambitious storytelling that reads like a legend to be passed down from generation to generation, chronicling the story of how two princes who met as mere boys, evolved from enemies to husbands by way of politics, and went on to save the world. It’s hard to imagine that a one-hundred-thirty-eight page novella could be described as epic, but that’s exactly what The Lodestar of Ys is, set in a larger-than-life world where ships fly and islands float where two heroes rush headlong into the fray to battle the enemy, not because they are fearless but because they are fearful that if they don’t it will mean the end of existence for the people they love and live to serve. Review: From one little story in the 2013 Dreamspinner Advent anthology to a free novella in last summer’s Goodreads M/M Romance Group anthology Love Has No Boundaries, I am now wanting to know nothing more than where Amy Rae Durreson has been all my reading life. Can warrior Sjurd and diplomat Celyn find any common ground? When an elopement and the threat of invasion force the two princes together, however, they have no choice but to marry and fake true love to keep their countries safe. It’s a good thing that Celyn is engaged to Sjurd’s brother, not him, because Sjurd loathes the brat, and it’s quite mutual. Publisher: The Goodreads M/M Romance Groupīlurb: Sjurd is convinced that Celyn of Ys is the most irritating man alive. Unhappy the land that needs heroes.” – Bertolt Brecht In other news, Something Wicked This Way Comes is currently out of print.“Unhappy the land that has no heroes? No. You can find links to Gaudete and The Holly Groweth Gre en below: I’ve also been busy reissuing my old Christmas novellas.

Now, whenever the Broad freezes over, he returns and brings a curse with him.Īnd every night Alex spends trapped in the icebound boat, he hears the beat of a distant drum draw closer…Ī .uk Smashwords Two hundred years ago, drummer boy Jack Sadler drowned skating over thin ice to meet his lover. But when a freak snowstorm traps him there, Alex soon realises he’s not the only heartbroken lover haunting the shores of Halsham Broad.

Panicked by the prospect of spending Christmas with his boyfriend’s disapproving parents, Alex flees to the old houseboat in the Norfolk Broads his uncle left him. Christmas is coming… but Alex is running away.

The Lodestar of Ys by Amy Rae Durreson