The Wysman (A Tale of Rinland) - Softcover

Winsor, Dorothy A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908600950 ISBN 13: 9781908600950

Publisher: Inspired Quill, 2020

Synopsis

Magic. Missing children. A street kid turned king's advisor in a race against time. A YA fantasy bestseller for readers of Megan Whalen Turner and Kristin Cashore.

"The Grabber is just a fright tale."

Former street kid Jarka was born with a crooked foot and uses a crutch, but that no longer matters since he's now an apprentice Wysman, training to advise the king. When poor kids start to go missing from the city's streets, Jarka suspects that whatever's causing the disappearances comes from the castle.

Now he needs to watch his step or risk losing the position he fought so hard to win... but when someone close to him becomes the latest victim, Jarka knows he's running out of time.

His search takes him from diving into ancient history, to standing up to those who want to beat or bleed the magic out of him.

Will Jarka succeed in uncovering an evil long-hidden, or will his friends and family vanish into the darkness?

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Set in a kingdom where magic is a tool, tradition runs deep, and politics tangles every loyalty, The Wysman is a hopeful coming of age fantasy with the urgency of a thriller. Jarka's world is one of palace corridors and back alleys, ancient secrets and present day stakes, where a former street kid with a crutch has earned a place few thought him capable of holding and now has to use it to save the children no one else is looking for.

Dorothy A. Winsor writes with the quiet, character driven precision that readers of Megan Whalen Turner know to look for. Fans of Kristin Cashore and Cinda Williams Chima will find a familiar pleasure in the worldbuilding, while readers who love Travis Baldree's warmth will recognise the same care for character even as the pages turn faster.

The Wysman is Book 2 of Dorothy A. Winsor's Tales of Rinland series but can be read as a complete standalone. A YA fantasy bestseller, it's a thoughtful, page turning read for anyone who wants their fantasy hopeful, their heroes flawed, and their representation woven into the fabric of the story rather than bolted on top.

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"Brimming with danger, magic and intrigue, set in a richly imagined world, with a superb cast of characters." - Mary Simms, BookCraic

Content warnings: Kidnapping. Assault.

About this title

About the Author

For about a dozen years, Dorothy A. Winsor taught technical writing at Iowa State University and served as the editor of the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, but then she decided writing young adult (YA) fantasy was more fun.Her novels include the Tales of Rinland series (Deep as a Tomb, The Wind Reader, The Wysman, and The Trickster) and the Dolyan Islands series (Glass Girl, and Dragoncraft). She also wrote the middle-grade fantasy, Finders Keepers.Her short stories have appeared in Swords and Sorcery Magazine, Bards and Sages Quarterly, FrostFire Worlds, Wyldblood, and the Autumn's Harvest anthology.She is a member of the Barrington Writers Workshop and a graduate of both the Taos Writers Workshop and Blue Heaven workshop. She was elected Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing and was awarded the Alfred N. Goldsmith Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Communication. Her deepest secret is that she once wrote over a million words of Lord of the Rings fanfiction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Inspired Quill
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908600950
• ISBN 13: 9781908600950
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300