The Sapphire Manticore Book Cover

The Sapphire Manticore


A Fantasy Novel


Book 4 of the The Lost Ancients Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Fantasy Adventure,
  • Archaeological Fantasy,
  • Relic Quest,
  • Elves,
  • Ghosts
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Ancient relic hunts with deadly magical consequences
  • Drunken faeries and mythic creatures coming back to life
  • Archaeology adventures with secrets that rewrite history
Publisher Description

Winner of the RT Book Reviewers' Choice- Fantasy Adventure

Murderous magic, vanished races, killer relics, and drunken faeries--who knew the end of the world would look like this?

Taryn St. Giles thought she knew all about elves. She dreamed of the long-vanished elves as a child and has spent the past fifteen years digging through their abandoned ruins in Beccia.

Six months ago, Taryn found out everything she thought she knew about the elves was wrong.

Two weeks ago she found out how very wrong she'd been.

Taryn and Alric have been captured to answer for crimes against a long-lost people. Crimes that could bring down an entire kingdom and revolve around a small, glass gargoyle.

Part of a weapon that destroyed an extremely powerful race, now only known as the Ancients, it, and its fellow pieces are deadly to any who have them.

Knowledge of the relics found by Taryn and Alric have spread far.

Dangerous bands of long dead creatures, ghosts, and nightmares out of myths are waking up and hunting for the relics.

And Taryn.

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