The Eighth Key

Laura Weyr

Aug 2025 · Journey Press · Narrated by Gideon Marcus

About this audiobook

THE MAGIC IS GONE...OR IS IT? Lucian is a jaded flirt and professional bard who knows all the old songs about sorcery. When he meets Corwin, a shy mage who can still use magic despite the Drought, Lucian finds his desire growing with each passing day - not just for answers, but for Corwin himself. Sparks fly as they find themselves passionately entangled in adventure and each other. But learning the true origin of the Drought and the Key to ending it comes at a price that their bond may not survive...

About the author

When it comes to fusing elaborate high fantasy with steamy romantic erotica, no one does it better than three-time Hugo Finalist Laura Weyr! Her first full-length novel, The Eighth Key, will captivate as well as excite. Laura lives in sunny California with her husband, daughter, and cat. Stay tuned for more from this talented new arrival!

Founder of Journey Press, an independent publisher focused on unusual and diverse speculative fiction, four-time Hugo Finalist Gideon Marcus also runs the time machine project, Galactic Journey. He is a professional space historian, much sought after for his public speaking talents.

An acclaimed science fiction author, he is currently hard at work on Hyvilma, third book in The Kitra Saga. His short fiction can be found in Dark Matter, Utopia, Simultaneous Times, and elsewhere.

Gideon lives in San Diego County with his writer/editor wife and their polymath artist daughter…along with a cat, a snake, and an immense library.