Eos editor Diana Gill writes that “our free e-book for May and June is The Serpent Bride by Sara Douglass, which is the first in her DarkGlass Mountain saga. Eos says the book is about Ishbel Brunelle, who “rescued from unspeakable horror, has devoted her life to a Serpent cult that reads the future in the entrails of its human sacrifices. But the Serpent has larger plans for Ishbel than merely being archpriestess, plans that call for a dangerous royal marriage balancing on the edge between treachery and devotion, and an eerie, eldritch warning: Prepare for the Lord of Elcho Falling…
“And there are other dangers. For while Tencendor is gone, even its fall cannot destroy the Icarii. As the Tyrant of Isembaard reaches for glory, both StarDrifter SunSoar and his son, Axis, are pulled into the deadly dance of intrigue and sorcery. The DarkGlass Mountain—once known as the Threshold—is waiting, and as the Dark God Kanubai rises from his prison in exile, no one will escape unscathed.”
The free e-book offer is also a lead-in to the release of the next book in the saga, The Twisted Citadel, which Eos will release at the end of the month.
More information on these book’s, as well as the three in Eos’s “First Look” program—Nightwalker by Jocelynn Drake, The Servants by Michael Marshall Smith, and Anathem by Neal Stephenson—are available on their blog. The First Look program gives readers a chance to be pre-publication reviewers.