Bastial Steel (The Rhythm of Rivalry: Book 2)

Dragged to an unfamiliar continent transformed by war and monstrous creatures, Cleve’s path home has never been less clear. With a place in a king’s plot, a princess who wants to marry him, and the companionship of a brash Sartious mage, Cleve learns that—while some battles are won with a sword—others are played out through a more delicate dance. But Cleve has never been one for delicacy. Soon he’s making tidal waves in every puddle he crosses on his path to return home. NOTE: It’s recommended that Bastial Energy and The Sartious Mage be read before this novel, but it doesn’t matter which book is read first between those two. For more information on the Rhythm of Rivalry series, visit the author’s website at btnarro.com.

B.T. Narro was born in 1985, in San Francisco, California, where he still lives.

He has a bachelor's degree in creative writing from the University of California Riverside.

He loves intricate stories with surprises, humor, romance, but above all, deeply developed characters and worlds that are so real they seem to live on once the novel is finished. This is what he strives for as a writer.

Narro's passion for fantasy started in elementary school. He had a lot of great teachers, one of which was his sixth grade English teacher, Rick Riordan (author of the Percy Jackson novels). Narro was fortunate enough to have Riordan read and provide feedback for Narro's first fantasy manuscript, which he completed in college. (It was terrible, but Riordan was very helpful and nice about it.)

In high school, Narro started having a difficult time staying awake through class, which was strange considering how he slept about eight hours a night. By senior year, he couldn't go a day without falling asleep at least once, and a friend jokingly suggested that he might have narcolepsy. But Narro went to see a doctor anyway, just in case his friend might be right. Sure enough, after a hospital sleepover study, Narro was diagnosed with narcolepsy.

In terms of writing, Narro likes to outline the entire novel before writing the first draft. He loves to write and hopes to have the next book out before the end of October.

Bastial Energy is his first published novel.

For news on B.T. Narro's books and the Rhythm of Rivalry series, go to: btnarro.com