Critiques en avant-premièreNancy Foster

The doubtful. The jaded. The heir. The dauntless.

Jarahad questions the mistakes he made during his life. Nobody ever forced him to become initiated in the combative harlequin arts, which only worsens his guilt. The only person that understands his true feelings is acting recklessly for reasons he doesn't quite understand yet. When disaster befalls Almjarhad, Jarahad will be forced to make the most difficult decision of his life.

Talgel's fate has become sealed in stone, and there is no turning back. The chess board she carefully assembled over the years has been prepared, and the pawns waiting in their positions for the true hero of this story to perform the first move. With no options left, Talgel hopes she can reveal the prediction that can save Almjarhad before all hopes are lost.

Tioja forges an unbreakable bond with the one person who can both save Almjarhad and ruin him. After running away from Almjarhad and fearing for his vanishing sanity, Tioja seeks refuge in the new harlequin enclave of Murdorhiolan alongside his mother, her new husband... and his half-brother named Gulraj. While Tioja gets used to his new life, an innocent remark ignites a butterfly effect that will trigger devastating consequences.

Jamarnid suspects something is amiss when a human mage moves into Almjarhad and becomes infatuated with his son Jarahad. Just as he feared, the mage becomes an unstoppable threat that warrants a drastic solution. After being ridiculed by his peers, Jamarnid must set aside his pride and convince everyone the mage threatens the city's safety before it's too late.

The demon who has bonded to Talgel's soul stares at the chessboard it helped assemble with reverie and is eager to share its power with the one person that can save the city... for a hefty price.

Trigger warning: Violence, male nudity, child abuse, unconsented sexual relations, suicide, shotgun marriage.

• The hero • The seer • The child • The condemned

After surviving two bloody purges that nearly exterminated both the Grey Clan and Orsenmuray City, the elf and harlequin survivors struggle to bring the tent city of Almjarhad to life. Surrounded by the ocean and desert, these inhospitable lands are slowly being developed with the aid of their magic.

As the culprit of their misfortune, the condemned elf Lord Jamarnid is forced to rely on his son Jarahad to rule the city due to ending up disabled before his frantic escape. Bitter about his situation because he wanted to be executed, Jamarnid distrusts the true intentions of the seer Talgel.

Unwanted by the Elf Kingdom and his harlequin great-grandfather Hurrujat, Jarahad struggles to accept his fate. As the interim ruler of Almjarhad, Jarahad wishes to complete his sword initiation to protect his people... and gain Talgel's unrequited love.

Talgel is a woman of perpetual mystery with dubious morals. Upon awakening magic that grants her the ability to predict the future with absolute certainty, Talgel lost her eyesight. She now wears a masquerade mask to hide her true feelings.

Embroiled in this story is a young hybrid elf named Tioja, who doesn't understand his role in the greater scheme of things.

Four characters are about to have their fates manipulated, and their willpower tested. All for the sake of a demon inhabiting Talgel's body that will use them for its own nefarious purposes.

Lord Spaulding's perfect life as the elusive mortal elf that rules the Kasimma Clan has ended up in haywire when his best friend Trevilin left two unwanted guests at his doorstep one autumn day: two orphan children from a disgraced noble family that just happen to be his long lost blood relatives named Richard and Nelida Earlrose. Spaulding must now find the way to bring these two children back to their nation and along the way, destroy a dangerous piece of sorcery that is hidden in his castle before King Salman and the Äimite guard find out.

Lord Spaulding's life seemed perfect. The perfectly stable life of the elusive mortal elf that rules the Kasimma Clan and lives in the quaint but pleasant city of Tesafar has ended up in haywire when his best friend Trevilin left two unwanted guests at his doorstep one autumn day: two orphan children from a disgraced noble family that just happen to be his long lost blood relatives Richard and Nelida Earlrose. Spaulding must now find the way to bring these two children back to their nation and along the way, destroy a dangerous piece of sorcery that is hidden in his castle before King Salman and the Äimite guard find out.

“The guards are mad; they want to keep me as a sort of caged parakeet.” Becoming the Elf King has a couple of drawbacks that Lord Spaulding never realized before. After awakening in National Palace several months ago with an abdominal wound and part of his memory erased, the former clan leader begins to struggle with the demands of his new life. And what is the worst part of all of this? “I'm sorry my Master, but the king of our nation must show a regal appearance at all times.” And there he was. A sight that at one time seemed almost illogical. The ruthless Äimite commander that made every visit to Capital City an agony had suddenly become polite to Spaulding for no apparent reason. “Froylan, why are you being so polite to me and what do you mean that I will no longer be able to live in Tesafar?” “The answer is simple Master Lord Spaulding. You have accepted the ring and crown of our nation and have been entrusted to rule the Elf Kingdom for the rest of your life. I have sworn eternal loyalty to you which means the Äimite recognize you as our only king and will not accept to obey someone else even if you wish to abdicate.” As Spaulding tries to adjust to an alien lifestyle and learn to trust the guard that just a few years prior had cruelly tortured him nonstop, he is viciously attacked by a traitorous guard one evening named Tamerlan. Can a cruel psychopath truly become loyal to an elf he always detested? What happens when an Äimite guard attempts to murder his king? Will Spaulding ever recover his memory? Will we ever meet the exiled clan? This and more will be unveiled in the 4th installment of An Ominous Book!

Two heroes are on the lam. Richard Earlrose is forced to flee to the Elf Kingdom in utter secrecy so that he can further his sorcery training with Lord Yu's help. While he trains nonstop in order to defeat his cousin Leilandy Aethinford that usurped his rightful throne, Spaulding is on a secret mission as well. Tortured and isolated in the eastern territories for 5 years, the elf that committed an unthinkable capital crime has set off to locate something from an ancient scroll he destroyed during his imprisonment for an unknown purpose. The ever deceitful Lord Froylan must choose where his true loyalty stands and form an unlikely alliance in order to settle the score and locate a new king for his nation before it's too late.