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Of­fi­cial site for the high/dark fan­tasy books of au­thors Barb Hendee and J. C. Hendee, in­clud­ing the Noble Dead Saga (a.k.a. The Noble Dead se­ries), the Mist-Torn Witches se­ries, the Vam­pire Mem­o­ries se­ries, and TNDS: Tales from the world of the Noble Dead Saga.

REVIEW: The Dead Seekers (Book 1)

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The fol­low­ing re­view was re­cently pub­lished for the pend­ing re­lease (Jan­u­ary 2017) of The Dead Seek­ers by Barb and J.C. Hendee, au­thors of The Noble Dead Saga/Se­ries:

THE DEAD SEEKERS

Barb Hendee, J.C. Hendee

The gor­geous cover of this book pro­vides a glimpse into the en­gross­ing and riv­et­ing dark world the Hen­dees have cre­ated in the first novel in the Dead Seek­ers se­ries. Tris and Mari are lon­ers whose lives in­ter­twine, and born out of vengeance, an un­usual part­ner­ship is cre­ated. Mari is the pro­tec­tor as they tra­verse a land­scape rich in de­tail, filled with hor­ror and dark­ness, but en­light­ened by good­ness. Tris and Mari are both char­ac­ters dam­aged by their pasts, and the ten­sion mounts as they test their mo­tives and loy­al­ties to each other. The ac­tion starts early and sus­pense is main­tained through­out as high peril and dan­ger pro­pel the sto­ry­line to the thrilling con­clu­sion, where the door is left open for fu­ture ad­ven­tures.

Mari Kaleja was only 10 years old when she saw her fam­ily slaugh­tered in the Wicker Woods. She’s vowed to hunt down the one re­spon­si­ble for their deaths: The Dead’s Man. Tris Vishal was born dead to a baron and his wife. He came back from the dead and now has pow­ers to seek out and de­stroy rest­less spir­its. He also has a dark half, trapped be­tween por­tals, lying in wait to take over Tris’ life. Mari is Mondyal­itko, a shifter, who has tracked her prey and is ready to seek vengeance — until she finds her­self res­cu­ing Tris and ques­tion­ing his guilt in her fam­ily’s death. She agrees to ac­com­pany Tris as his trans­la­tor as he trav­els to a vil­lage to lay a dead girl’s spirit to rest. Mari must learn more about Tris be­fore she kills him. After van­quish­ing the young girl’s ghost and learn­ing of the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing her death, Tris and Mari head to the bar­racks in So­lad­ran, where sol­diers are dying. It is here they are en­veloped in a bat­tle in which they are out­num­bered. Mari must ques­tion every­thing she thought she knew to de­fend the Dead Seeker as the spir­its come for him and his dark half gains power. (ACE, Jan., 336 pp., $27.00)

Re­viewed by:
San­dra Mar­tin
RT Book Re­views (Ro­man­tic Times)

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