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The Initiate
The Time Master Trilogy—Book One
Order any print or eBook edition of The Initiate and receive the Time Master short story, A Partner In The Dance, written by Louise Cooper especially for Mundania Press.
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The seven gods of Order had ruled unchallenged for centuries, served by the adepts of the Circle in their bleak northern castle on the Star Peninsula. But for Tarod—the most enigmatic and formidable sorcerer in Circle’s ranks—a darker affinity had begun to call. Threatening his beliefs, even his sanity, it rose unbidden from beyond time; an ancient and deadly adversary that could plunge the world into madness and chaos—and whose power might rival that of the gods themselves.
And though Tarod’s mind and heart were pledged to Order, his soul was another matter...
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About the Author
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Louise Cooper began writing stories when she was at school to entertain her friends. She continued to write and her first full-length novel was published when she was only twenty years old. Since then she has become a prolific writer of fantasy, renowned for her bestselling Time Master trilogy. Her other interests include music, folklore, mythology and comparative religion.
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Reviews
Louise Cooper is a magical storyteller. Never has the battle of Order and Chaos, the great struggle between what is best in us and what is worst, been better recorded than in Louise Cooper's magical fantasy sequence. Her sharp understanding of human ambiguity, her gift for narrative and her wonderfully original imagination make her one of our finest writers of epic fantasy. —Michael Moorcock
The Initiate is an excellent work of fantasy, exciting in both action and intellectual content. —Thrust
There is a richness to the story...the characters are worth following. —Kliatt
Cooper's strength of character development is...her greatest strength. The Initiate...is filled with stunningly drawn character portraits... A very good read... —The North Spire
Cooper writes well, and [The Initiate] is unusually gripping... —SF Chronicle
Excerpt
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The nightmare was beginning again.
Remember...come back...
Tarod gasped, trying to turn away as the whisper echoed from the silver door at the end of the passage. But his body refused to respond.
Remember...
Something was coming along the corridor, moving inexorably toward him. It neither walked nor ran, but seemed to shift without motive power of its own, dreamlike, drifting. The face—his own face—smiled, but the smile was an illusion, a human mask hiding something far more terrible. The long, narrow eyes changed color constantly, and the gold hair flowed in a rising current of air as the apparition raised its arm, holding out gaunt, long-fingered hands toward him...
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