{Book Blitz & Excerpt} City of Scars by Steven Montano

On June 25th Author Steven Montano released his latest in Fantasy called City of Scars. And let me just tell you that he has been teasing me with excerpts from it for months now, so naturally I have been dying to get my hands on this book. Finally my wait is over, the book is finally here and I can get my fill of Steven Montano's new character Dane, that is until the book ends. I am almost done reading this book and have to say, that is just as good, if not better than his Blood Skies Series. (Maybe) I am in complete love with this new world and can't wait to share my review with you all soon. But enough from me onto the book at hand!

Book Blurb~

It’s been three decades since the Blood Queen led her legions on a brutal campaign of conquest and destruction, and the Empires are still struggling to rebuild. Now, in the distant aftermath of the war, the real battle is about to begin.
 
Haunted by the crimes of his past, fallen knight Azander Dane ekes out a mercenary existence as he drifts from one city to the next. His latest job is to hunt down Ijanna Taivorkan, a powerful outlaw witch desperate to escape her destiny.

 Dane and Ijanna find themselves in Ebonmark, the City of Scars, where deadly crime guilds and shadowy agents of the White Dragon Empire prepare for a brutal confrontation. Pursued by apocalypse cults, mad alchemists, exiled giants and werewolf gangs, Dane and Ijanna soon learn a deadly lesson – in Ebonmark, only the cruelest and most cunning can survive.

 City of Scars is the first volume of The Skullborn Trilogy, an all new epic fantasy adventure from the author of Blood Skies.

 Find it: Amazon Kindle | Amazon UK | Barnes & Noble | Smashwords | Amazon Paperback | Website

And guess what Fantasy fans! Steven Montano is giving away signed paperback copies on Goodreads right now! Make sure you enter here: Goodreads Giveaway

Now for the excerpt....

Excerpt

The right-hand gate rose.  Dane and a hundred bloodthirsty gamblers waited for Maddox’s fighter to appear, and when he did a collective cheer rose from all but Dane, who at that moment realized those people truly were insane.

It was a giant – a twelve-foot tall black-fleshed brute with knotted rune-carved muscles and fearsome white eyes.  His bald head was lined with scars and the muscles in his neck bulged as he twisted his fearsome visage from side to side to take in the crowd.

The giant’s arms were as big around as a human’s torso, and his hands were so massive Dane guessed he could easily take a stallion’s head in his grip.  Simple black armor covered the giant’s lean body, but the creature’s midnight flesh was darker.  His tiny white eyes peered around the room angrily, and when the creature opened his mouth his thick blunt teeth shone in the dim light.  The giant held a gigantic war axe in his grip, and a thick silver collar had been fitted tightly around his muscular throat.

It was a Voss, creatures who dwelled in enormous underground cities and plotted the downfall and enslavement of all other races, surface and subterranean alike.  Despite their size and ferocious appearance the Voss were known more for their cruelty and cunning rather than their strength.  During the Rift War they’d acted as the Blood Queen’s engineers, and they’d labored tirelessly to construct Veilcrafted war machines which had devastated Jlantria and Den’nar.  As impressive as it was that a Voss had been captured and enslaved, Dane wanted to find this Maddox and strangle him – bringing a giant into a human city was like walking a lion through a field of lambs.

About the Author~

Steven Montano is an accountant by day and an author by night.  Sadly, he doesn’t own a superhero costume.  He’s also hopelessly addicted to books, films, music and video games, the darker the better.
 
Steven is the author of Blood Skies, Black Scars, Soulrazor, Crown of Ash, The Witch’s Eye, Tales of a Blood Earth 1 and 2 and something black….  He’s currently hard at work on Blood Angel Rising, a horror novel; Chain of Shadows and Vampire Down, the next two installments of the Blood Skies series; and Path of Bones and The Black Tower, the remaining books of The Skullborn trilogy.

 He lives in Washington State with his wife, two children, a dog of below-average intelligence, and a ridiculous number of books and bottles of wine.

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