Dusk: a dark fantasy novel (A Noreela novel)

by Tim Lebbon

  “It should be,” Hope said, “but it isn’t. No sun today, Kosar. There’ll be no sun today.”

  He shook his head, not understanding. Above the eastern horizon there was only a sad smudge, like the memory of life reflected in a pale corpse’s eyes. The rest of the sky was the same sickly hue, redolent of the death moon at its brightest. Kosar held up his hand—he could see the shape, but no real colour. He could feel the moonlight on his skin, but there was no warmth.

  “I don’t understand.”

  “The Mages have made their first move,” Hope said. “What are we, any of us, without daylight?”

  The machine, borne by magic, drifted south, edging closer to the peaks of darkest Kang Kang. While Kosar, Hope and Trey watched for a dawn that would not arrive, Alishia slept behind them.

  And she dreamed.

  Such dark, fearsome dreams.

  About the Author

  TIM LEBBON is a New York Times-bestselling writer from South Wales. Over forty novels published to date include Relics, The Silence, The Family Man, and The Rage War trilogy. He has won four British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Scribe Award, and has been a finalist for World Fantasy, International Horror Guild and Shirley Jackson Awards.

  The movie of his story Pay the Ghost, starring Nicolas Cage, was released Hallowe'en 2015, and the movie of The Silence is due out in 2018.

  For more information:

  www.timlebbon.net

  timlebbon@gmail.com

  Thanks for reading!

  I hope you’ve enjoyed Dusk, the first of four novels set in my imaginary world of Noreela. Dawn will follow soon, and then Fallen and The Island (the latter two are standalone stories set in the same world, but those who read to the end of Dusk will realise that Dawn is a direct continuation).

  If you enjoyed the novel I’d be really grateful if you could find time to leave a review somewhere online. Reviews really do matter to a book’s exposure and visibility.

  Thank you!

  More soon…