In Cameron Scott Kirk's jaw-dropping, grim fantasy adventure, a warrior princess, a scholarly monk, and a vengeful girl must defeat a madman possessed by a soul-corrupting metal to save the land of White Cloud.
A renowned warrior, Brynhild Grimsdotter, and her biographer, William Barding, aid a young girl seeking vengeance for the murder of her father, a trinket bearer and victim of the king's obsession with finding occult artifacts.
When a madman resurrects from the shadows to exact revenge upon the land of White Cloud, they must join forces with a deadly assassin and a mysterious knight to save its inhabitants?and then kill the king. But the girl's desire for vengeance may very well aid the madman they are determined to stop.
Unsettling, bold, and witty, set in a world as bleak as it is bright, The Mad Trinkets is a kaleidoscopic adventure into madness.
"Kirk revels in the grit and grime of the genre. A miasma of crow-pecked corpses and urine-soaked taverns rises from his prose" - Kirkus Reviews
"[Kirk] challenges the notion of the slow burn epic fantasy. The Mad Trinkets is fast-paced and gut-churning." - Grimdark Magazine
"[The Mad Trinkets] is unashamedly grim-very-freaking-dark. Cameron Scott Kirk hails the horrible." - FanFiAddict
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CAMERON SCOTT KIRK (Christchurch, New Zealand) is interested in traveling the world looking for lost treasure, meeting alien life, and wielding a sword against horrific monsters. In lieu of the real thing, he writes about it.
Kirk has been published in over a dozen magazines including Antipodean SF, Aphotic Realm, and Alcyone magazine to name but a few. A winner of Best of Fiction at Across the Margins magazine (another publication starting with "A"). He lives with his wife and daughter, who both think he should give up his silly writing and get a real job.