A Princess of Last Resort

Bill Ricardi

Jul 2019 · Bill Ricardi

About this ebook

With the elflands in flames and the royal family silenced, a distant heir must flee from murderous invaders. Will Sarah and her half brother Granite survive the frigid wilderness and find the allies that they need to fight back?

Sarah, a half elf mage attending the Arcane University and very distant heir to the throne of Civilia, thought that this was going to be a nice walk in the woods. She had dragged along her older half brother Granite, a half orc journeyman ranger, so that he could help her to collect some material components for the new school year.

Neither of the Blackstaff siblings expected their little trip to be interrupted by fire raining down from the sky. And they certainly had no clue that a ragtag mercenary army would use this natural disaster as an opportunity to invade the sovereignty of the northern elves. In desperation, they leap through an unstable portal and find themselves ill prepared for the snowy mountains that surround them.

Now the clever young mage and her fiercely loyal brother not only have to survive, but they also need to find new allies that can help answer the questions that haunt them: Are their parents still alive? Why can nobody reach the elven royal family? Was the firestorm a natural event, or something far more sinister? Finally, who are these invaders, and what do they want with the Blackstaff siblings?

Ratings and reviews

I really enjoyed this book. It has adorable charaters and when one of them dies, i hoped he would somehow be saved by magic. This quest has lots of action and adventure and a cast of magical creatures as well: a yeti, a minotaur, a were- wolf, a were-cat, s wererat, mages, rangers. The story takes place 16 years after the "stupid spell" trilogy, but if you haven't read it, it' s not a problem because you can follow the story perfectly with the information you get in this book.

AAA

About the author

Bill Ricardi is a fantasy author from Belfast in the U.K. He has a bent for writing the unusual. 

In addition to 'Another Stupid Trilogy' and 'The Blackstaff Siblings', which are his two fantasy series centred around the world of Panos, Bill is the author of 'The Ihy Saga', which involves a young man becoming the avatar of the Egyptian god of music in the modern world.

Bill has a wonderful life partner, and a giant cat named Loki. Both enjoy tormenting him.