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The Diamond Sphinx
A Fantasy Novel by Marie Andreas
Book 6 of the The Lost Ancients Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Relic Hunting,
- Mythic Artifacts,
- Save the World,
- Elves,
- Faeries
This book is for you if you're into...
- Drunken faeries causing magical trouble
- Fantasy quests with ancient relics and world-ending stakes
- Heroes forced to work with unlikely allies like goddesses and faeries
Magic, mayhem, murder, relics, true love, and drunken faeries. Life has been a bit too exciting for Taryn St. Giles. And the troubles are just beginning.
Taryn has been through a year of changes—to her and her world. As a digger, she'd searched through the past to find out who the missing elves and Ancients had been. Now she knows the elves and they are helping her uncover the secrets of the Ancients. Secrets she's not sure she wants to know.
A few too many up close and personal encounters with the relics that were left behind leaves her shaken and on the run. Even from the people she loves.
The relics were part of a weapon that led to the destruction of the Ancients. Now Taryn and Alric, must get a goddess, hundreds of faeries, and the rest of their friends to work together to destroy the weapon before anyone can use it again.
But when her world comes crashing down around her, will Taryn have the strength to do what needs to be done?
This series arc is complete at 6 books (this one) but you can return to more drunken faery high jinks—and Taryn and Alric—in the NEW adventure, the Dragon's Blood series that begins with SEEKER'S CHEST!
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