A man woke up with amnesia to find that he had bested five swordsmen and that he carried a strange object. Saved from his grave injury by a healer of unique abilities and remarkable beauty, they learn that others of power and station are willing to kill for the object he carries. On the road to rescue his ransomed family, whom he does not remember, Imar's attraction to Dalla grows and he learns that the eight sided object in his pouch is a key to a faraway underground fortress containing advanced knowledge and technology from the forgotten past. Others would have the Octagon Key because it also unlocks access to powerful weapons unimaginable in this Medieval Age of Sail. Imar must find the self he cannot remember, keep the key from falling in the hands of evil, and decide whether to destroy the Octagon Key or use it for good.
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The story develops at a good pace, character development is thorough and engaging. The plot line is interesting and believable as well as a new take on post-space age medieval fiction.
The story draws you in and one can only hope the very best and the very worst for the characters as they deserve it.
I cannot wait for the next book!! Hurry hurry!!
The Octagon Key is a compelling novel full of action, mystery and forbidden, but unrequited love. There are great landscapes and descriptions of weather in what was once the Alaskan and Canadian wilderness as well as what is left of the West Coast. The parts written of sea travel aboard sailing vessels is so realistic that one cannot help but feel that the author has experienced these places and modes of travel. I can hardly wait for the next book.
