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Blackdog by K.V. Johansen Published by Pyr, September 2011 Trade Paperback - ISBN: 9781616145217 $19.50 Cdn. / $17.00 US Cover illustration Copyright Raymond Swanland Synopsis: Long ago, in the days of the first kings in the north, there were seven devils... In a land where gods walk on the hills and goddesses rise from river, lake, and spring, the caravan-guard Holla-Sayan, escaping a bloodily-conquered lakeside town, stops to help an abandoned child and a dying dog. The girl, though, is the incarnation of Attalissa, goddess of Lissavakail, and the dog a shape-changing guardian spirit whose origins have been forgotten. Possessed and nearly driven mad by the Blackdog, he flees to the desert road, taking the powerless avatar with him, hunted by enemies out of old legend. Necromancy, treachery, massacres and rebellions, gods dead or lost or mad, follow hard on the devils’ heels. But it is Attalissa herself who may be the Blackdog’s -- and Holla-Sayan’s -- doom.

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Text from Blackdog by K.V. Johansen ISBN 9781616145217 & map from The Storyteller ©2011 K.V. Johansen · Blackdog cover ©2011 Raymond Swanland