Lisa Blackwood is the author of the bestselling Gargoyle and Sorceress Urban Fantasy series. Her work has also landed on the Wall Street Journal and the USA Today Bestseller lists as part of the Dominion Rising Anthology (2016). Enjoy!
Betrayal’s Price (In Deception’s Shadow Book 1)
by Lisa Blackwood
Genre: Fantasy | Science Fiction & Fantasy
Enemies by nature. Companions by choice.
Warrior-Scout Ashayna Stonemantle has no awareness of her fate until her sentient magic manipulates her into seeking out one of the enemy — Sorntar, Crown Prince of the Phoenix. If she dare trust the word of an enemy prince who is also an avian shape-shifting mage, their souls and futures are eternally linked.
When their willful magic awakens early and forces them into an unbreakable bond, Ashayna and Sorntar are accused of being corrupted by an ancient evil. To prove their innocence, they must work together to discover what happened in the past to pit bondmate against bondmate. As the search for the truth draws them closer together, Ashayna realizes she has growing feelings for Sorntar. But before she can tell him, his tainted power enslaves him.
Faced with an impossible decision, Ashayna chooses to fight for Sorntar’s soul even at the risk of her own.
Author’s Note: In Deception’s Shadow is an epic fantasy romance series.
Betrayal’s Price (Book 1)
Herd Mistress (Book 2)
Maiden’s Wolf (Book 3)
Death’s Queen (Book 4)
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In Deception’s Shadow Box Set: Book 1-3
by Lisa Blackwood
Genre: Fantasy | Science Fiction & Fantasy
Enemies by nature. Companions by choice.
When unforeseen circumstances force natural enemies to become allies, something far more enduring than animosity is born.
~*~*~ Betrayal’s Price ~*~*~
Warrior-Scout Ashayna Stonemantle has no awareness of her fate until her sentient magic manipulates her into seeking out one of the enemy — Sorntar, Crown Prince of the Phoenix. If she dare trust the word of an enemy prince who is also an avian shape-shifting mage, their souls and futures are eternally linked.
When their willful magic awakens early and forces them into an unbreakable bond, Ashayna and Sorntar are accused of being corrupted by an ancient evil. To prove their innocence, they must work together to discover what happened in the past to pit bondmate against bondmate. As the search for the truth draws them closer together, Ashayna realizes she has growing feelings for Sorntar. But before she can tell him, his tainted power enslaves him.
Faced with an impossible decision, Ashayna chooses to fight for Sorntar’s soul even at the risk of her own.
~*~*~ Herd Mistress ~*~*~
Magic. It turned Sorsha Stonemantle’s world on its head. Yet she can’t hate magic for without it Shadowdancer, the Santhyrian ambassador, would never have come into her life.
In the days following their first meeting, Sorsha knows Shadowdancer completes her soul. There’s only one problem. Any relationship beyond friendship is impossible.
From the moment Shadowdancer encountered Sorsha, he knew she was a Herd Mistress — a rare worker of magic, key to the Santhyrian nation’s survival. His first obligation is to protect her and bring her back to the safety of the herd, but when Sorsha is threatened by Lord Master Trensler and his priesthood, they soon discover Trensler serves a darker master, one willing to devour all magic until the world dies. And that evil wants Shadowdancer and Sorsha.
When a second ambush set by Trensler cripples Sorsha’s magic and traps Shadowdancer in the form of a man, they barely escape with their lives. Unwilling to allow her lack of magic to rule her life, Sorsha sets out to teach Shadowdancer that being human isn’t a curse. The proud Santhyrian stubbornly tries to push Sorsha away, but when they are endangered once again, they realize they must work together to find a way to heal themselves. If they fail, Trensler’s master will devour first them and then everything else Sorsha and Shadowdancer ever loved.
~*~*~ Maiden’s Wolf ~*~*~
Beatrice, a young healer living on the outskirts of the human port settlement of River’s Divide, simply wishes to hide herself from the searching eyes of the Priesthood of the Revealing Light. The last thing she wants ‘revealed’ is that she is host to a Larnkin — a spirit creature of vast and forbidden magic.
Her already complicated life grows more perilous when a lupwyn scout stumbles into a trap set by the priesthood. If she sits back and does nothing, the wolf-like shapeshifter will be drained dry by the priests until he is an empty, soulless slave. As a healer, that isn’t something she will allow. But lupwyns have no love for the newly arrived humans.
For the sake of mutual survival, Beatrice hopes this lupwyn can see beyond the hatred caused by two warring peoples. If not, she might die at the hands of the male she is trying to save.
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Sorceress Awakening (A Gargoyle and Sorceress Tale Book 1)
by Lisa Blackwood
Genre: Fantasy | Science Fiction & Fantasy
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When Lillian finds herself facing off against vampires and other mythological impossibilities, help comes from an unlikely source — the stone gargoyle who has been sleeping in her garden for the last twelve years.
After the battle, Lillian learns the humans she thought were her family are actually a powerful coven of witches at war with the demonic Riven. Lillian is something more than human, a Sorceress and Avatar to the gods. Gregory has been her protector for many lifetimes, but when she was still a child troubles in their homeland forced him to flee with her to the human world. However, Gregory fears something from her childhood followed them to this world — he suspects Lillian is host to an infant demon, one capable of evil greater than even the Riven.
Extra complications arise when she realizes she’s concealing a forbidden love for her guardian. While she might be able to defeat the Riven with Gregory’s help, she does not know if her fragile new love can survive the evil growing in her own soul.
Author’s Note: Sorceress Awakening was previously published as Stone’s Kiss and was part of the Urban Fantasy series called The Avatars.
The Gargoyle and Sorceress novels have a continuing story arc and should be read in order:
Sorceress Awakening
Sorceress Rising
Sorceress Hunting
Sorceress at War (Forthcoming)
Sorceress Triumphant (Forthcoming)
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Sorceress Rising (A Gargoyle and Sorceress Tale Book 2)
by Lisa Blackwood
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Fantasy
Ignorance nearly killed Lillian once.
That time, she’d known nothing of magic until Gregory, her Gargoyle Protector, awoke from his stone sleep and saved her from demons escaped from the Magic Realm. They defeated the demonic Riven at great personal cost, one which forced them both to hibernate for months while they mended.
Healed, Lillian wakes to a world greatly changed, one where her sleepy northern town has been overrun by military, scientists, and paparazzi. Apparently, her battle with the Riven did not go completely unnoticed, and her actions put her Coven family at risk of exposure.
These new tensions unearth another concern. Lillian and Gregory may be one being in the Spirit Realm, soul mates in the most literal sense, but it does not guarantee a perfect accord here on earth, especially when Gregory’s clearly defined sense of good and evil urge him to eradicate anyone he deems as evil — which, to her dismay, includes a good chunk of humanity.
But their troubles are not limited to humans, not when another, older power rises from the ocean’s depths. Tethys, a siren of the ancient world, has her own plans for Gregory. For the first time in their many lives, Lillian finds herself at odds with her other half.
And if she does not master her own magic, this battle will become her greatest defeat.
The Gargoyle and Sorceress Urban Fantasy Series should be read in order for maximum enjoyment:
Sorceress Found (Prequel Short Story)
Sorceress Awakening
Sorceress Rising
Sorceress Hunting
Sorceress At War (Forthcoming)
Sorceress Triumphant (Forthcoming)
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Sorceress Found: A Gargoyle and Sorceress Prequel Story
by Lisa Blackwood
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Fantasy
When Gregory, a gargoyle and Avatar to the gods, wakes to a new life, he finds the female half of his soul is missing. He soon learns she has been captured by their oldest enemy — the Lady of Battles. And that ancient rival has forced his soulmate to be reborn as a vulnerable child. To save her, Gregory will risk everything even if he must pay the ultimate price for his loyalty.
Sorceress Found is a prequel short story that takes place twelve years before the events in Sorceress Awakening: Book 1 in the popular Gargoyle and Sorceress Tales urban fantasy series.
The Gargoyle & Sorceress Tales have a continuing story arc and should be read in order:
Sorceress Found (Prequel Short Story)
Sorceress Awakening
Sorceress Rising
Sorceress Hunting
Sorceress at War
Sorceress Enraged
Sorceress Eternal (coming soon)
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