Larry Z. Daily
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America
Genres: Fantasy
Larry was born in Covington, Kentucky but grew up in the DC suburbs of northern Virginia. In high school, one of his goals was to be a writer and he wrote a number of stories, all of which have been lost. Given what was written about them in his journal, that’s probably for the best. It was in high school that his love of fantasy was born, along with the idea for a character known as the Lawbreaker and the idea of itinerant musician-scholars known as minstrels. Life — an accidental career in retail management and a chosen career as a college professor — happened, but the desire to write never went away and he was always working on developing the world of the minstrels in the background. Larry currently resides in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia where he teaches psychology classes at Shepherd University. In his spare time Larry builds HO scale model trains, plays folk music on six- and twelve-string guitars, and devours fantasy novels.
Larry Z. Daily's books
Genres: Fantasy
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+
The High King had been murdered on his throne. Ambrose the Prophet is dead, but before he died, he passed the Lawbreaker’s ring to Lauren. Blamed for both those deaths, Lauren flees from town to town across the Federation pursued by bounty hunters and soldiers of the High King. Haunted by the loss of his mentor and sought by some malevolent power, Lauren hides his true name and his identity as a minstrel. He finds refuge in a place he never dreamed existed and there he comes face to face with the history of his people and a destiny he’s not sure he can accept.
Genres: Fantasy
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+
Times are strained in the Federated Kingdoms: animals are born deformed, crops fail overnight, and raiders strike from within the neighboring Kelmar Empire. In his backwater village, Lauren dreams of becoming a minstrel, the itinerant musician scholars of the Federated Kingdoms. His father, though, demands that Lauren train to be a warrior. When his father attacks him in a drunken rage, Lauren flees to the minstrel's college at Songhaven. During his training, Ambrose - master of the college and a prophet - teaches him about an ancient prophecy concerning the Lawbreaker, a man whose battles with the goddess Mar will destroy the world. As Lauren and Ambrose race to forestall a plot to kill the High King, they struggle to learn the identity of the Lawbreaker. Then Lauren discovers that he is being hunted. Could it be the Lawbreaker? What use could that dark power have for a minstrel?