OUT NOW in hardcover from DAW BOOKS!

REVIEWS

"….a stunning series and a fabulous capstone book."

—Romantic Times

"Highly recommended. Farrell has achieved a career highpoint with the Nessantico Cycle... The trilogy is epic fantasy in the best sense of the world, constructing a gigantic and complex world peopled by diverse, interesting characters, all of whom have consuming passions and urgent agendas. They live, they laugh, they fight and die--it's what fantasy readers love to see."

-- Drew Bittner for SFRevu

"A Magic of Dawn is epic fantasy with a bent towards intrigue, politics and faith but with lots of action too and written in a very clear and enjoyable style that makes pages almost turn by themselves. The Nessantico Epilogue with the city as a pov makes for quite an elegiac finish… A whirlwind tale of intrigue and war, love and faith, prophecies and redemption with magic, battles, assassinations, secret relationships, but also families and their shared joys and sorrows."

-- Liviu Suciu for Fantasy Book Critic

"[A MAGIC OF DAWN] is a great finish to a strong saga. Fast-paced and loaded with action, the characters and their divided loyalties make the Farrell mythos seem real."

-- Alternative Worlds

A MAGIC OF DAWN was written between June 12, 2008, and August 15, 2009, and is dedicated to my daughter and son, Megen and Devon. As with the other books, some characters survive the interval between NIGHTFALL and this book to play a significant part; others have, well, not survived. New characters have arrived, and some characters, both new and old, won't survive the book.

That is the way of things with characters...

The cover art is once again by Todd Lockwood, and he has outdone himself. I think this is the best of the three "Nessantico" covers he's done, and the three of them together make a wonderful trilogy of their own for the series. As with all his other painting, there are some wonderful details in the work, and the painting really deserves a larger stage than even the hardcover size can give it. You should see the large file of the painting I was sent!

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A SAMPLING FOR YOU:

If you'd like to read a bit of the opening of the novel, I've put up a sample of A MAGIC OF DAWN. Mind you, it's pasted directly from my final draft of the manuscript, so it's not the copy-edited, final form that's in the book. But it's close.

Check it out, and if you like it, pick up the book!

SAMPLE CHAPTERS FOR "A MAGIC OF DAWN"

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