Mad Shadows - The Order of the Serpent (Book 2)

by Joe Bonadonna

Overview

Dorgo the Dowser returns in a new novel of heroic fantasy!

This time around, Dorgo falls in love with a witch known as The Girl Who Loved Ghouls, battles creatures from another dimension, and meets one very special cat named Crystal. It's also the first time he hears about the ancient death cult called the Order of the Serpent.

Then, after a young woman is murdered and a mysterious book of arcane lore is stolen from her, Dorgo comes closer to learning more about the snake-worshipping Order.

But first Dorgo must battle both humans and demons in order to find and destroy the Book of Echoes.

Finally, when called upon to help a young girl trapped inside an evil spell, Dorgo must confront fiends born of dark sorcery as he tries to save her and destroy the undying warlock who is the leader of the Order of the Serpent.

Magic, murder, mystery, and mayhem all await you in Mad Shadows II: The Order of the Serpent.

"At first sight, it's classic sword and sorcery, set on a world populated by fighting men, merchants, wizards, and a multitude of mythical, non-mythical, and just plain made-up beasts. There's a different, though, in the style of the storytelling. It's a first-person narrative, executed very much in the style of the hard-boiled private eye genre."
—Dave Brzeski, British Fantasy Society

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798765564776
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	05/06/2022
Series:	Mad Shadows , #2
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

Joe Bonadonna is the author of the heroic fantasies Mad Shadows-Book 1: The Weird Tales of Dorgo the Dowser (winner of the 2017 Golden Book Readers’ Choice Award for Fantasy); Mad Shadows-Book 2: The Order of the Serpent; Mad Shadows-Book 3: The Heroes of Echo Gate; the space operas Three Against The Stars and The MechMen of Canis-9; and the sword & sorcery adventure, Waters of Darkness, (in collaboration with David C. Smith.)

With co-writer Erika M, Szabo, he wrote Three Ghosts in a Black Pumpkin (winner of the 2017 Golden Books Judge’s Choice Award for Children’s Fantasy), and The Power of the Sapphire Wand. He also has stories appearing in: Azieran—Artifacts and Relics; GRIOTS 2: Sisters of the Spear; Heroika: Dragon Eaters; Poets in Hell; Doctors in Hell; Pirates in Hell; Lovers in Hell; Mystics in Hell, Liars in Hell; Sinbad: The New Voyages, Volume 4; Unbreakable Ink; Sha’Daa Toys, (in collaboration with Shebat Legion), and The Lost Empire of Sol, (with David C. Smith.) In addition to his fiction, Joe has written a number of articles and book reviews for Black Gate online magazine.

His Facebook author’s page is called Bonadonna’s Bookshelf, at: