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Beware the moon! (Image: Tor Books)
Author James Rollins is best-known for his SIGMA Force thrillers, but he’s also an accomplished fantasy author. His new series, Moonfall, begins early next year with
The Starless Crown, an epic adventure in which one of the villains is the actual moon itself. Gizmodo has the cover reveal and an excerpt to share today.
Here’s the synopsis first:
A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death.
Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he’s forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home. A drunken prince, who steps out from his beloved brother’s shadow and claims a purpose of his own. An imprisoned thief, who escapes the crushing dark and discovers a gleaming artefact one that will ignite a power struggle across the globe.