I felt I'd fallen into some witching swamp, had risen from it and no matter what was done thereafter, could neither shake nor wash nor wish its essence gone.
Curse-crippled Animarlian sea captain Linden Wilder, told cure can only come via the sorcerer, Argilan, discovers his restoration requires terrifying expeditions to fix a shattering portal between Animarl and its twin world of Dyall's Ford.
But Animarl itself now reels from an onslaught of Mogandlion dragons, who've escaped Argilan's ocean prison and returned to land wreaking vengeance. Before the portal can be healed, sorcerer and sea captain must unite against this overwhelming horde hellbent on humanity's destruction.
The inner chamber of the Den of Margun choked with their numbers as they slunk around its edges, open-jawed snarling through serried rows of needle-fine teeth as they glared in at me....
About The Land Inside Time Saga:
The Swarm is book 3 of the dark fantasy novel series, The Land Inside Time, where post-apocalyptic survival collides with ancient and dangerous magic. Book one, The Shattering, concerns the dystopian state of Dyall's Ford, an Australian country town, and the appearance of a dragon there. Book 2, Under Dragon Sails, switches to Earth's otherworld of Animarl - itself undergoing upheavals - and tells the origin story of the dragon in book one. The Swarm continues the saga of Captain Linden Foxbright Wilder's quest for a cure and the terrifying transformation involved.