The Lunari Mask

"Laura J. Underwood knows how to deliver breathtaking fantasy adventure. If you're in the mood for swashbuckling pirates, evil bloodmages and the canniest wise woman since Granny Weatherwax, you're going to love The Lunari Mask." - Melanie Fletcher The coast of Mallow is a land of salt marshes and villages on piles and rocky coves. It is also the home of Peg Willowbawn, known affectionately as Granny Peg, an elderly mageborn with a sharp wit and a dry sense of humor when it comes to dealing with the mortalborn fisher folk of Dun Curragh and her mageborn great granddaughter Moreen. But their normally calm life is about to be shattered when the Pirate Blackwater invades the Moon Isles and steals the Lunari Mask. Peg knows the mask has a history of evil intentions, but what neither she nor the scurrilous pirates of the Nightmare bargained for was an ancient evil being - a dark one's essence - stirring from the depths of the stone. Add to this mix the crippled young guardsman of the Moon Isles, Eric Brenwold, who seeks vengeance on Dall Blackwater for killing his best friend, and a mageborn first mate named Kenan who is not really happy being a pirate (and who catches Moreen's eye), but is unsure of how to escape his reputation, and you have a whole kettle of battle crabs just itching to tear each other apart, in Peg's opinion. What's an old lady to do? Start kicking pirate butt big time and hoping to stop an ancient evil from rising again.