The Mad Trinkets

In Cameron Scott Kirk's jaw-dropping, grim fantasy adventure, a warrior princess, a scholarly monk, and a vengeful girl must defeat a madman possessed by a soul-corrupting metal to save the land of White Cloud. A renowned warrior, Brynhild Grimsdotter, and her biographer, William Barding, aid a young girl seeking vengeance for the murder of her father, a trinket bearer and victim of the king's obsession with finding occult artifacts. When a madman resurrects from the shadows to exact revenge upon the land of White Cloud, they must join forces with a deadly assassin and a mysterious knight to save its inhabitants—and then kill the king. But the girl's desire for vengeance may very well aid the madman they are determined to stop. Unsettling, bold, and witty, set in a world as bleak as it is bright, The Mad Trinkets is a kaleidoscopic adventure into madness. "Kirk revels in the grit and grime of the genre. A miasma of crow-pecked corpses and urine-soaked taverns rises from his prose" - Kirkus Reviews "[Kirk] challenges the notion of the slow burn epic fantasy. The Mad Trinkets is fast-paced and gut-churning." - Grimdark Magazine "[The Mad Trinkets] is unashamedly grim-very-freaking-dark. Cameron Scott Kirk hails the horrible." - FanFiAddict