SAPPHIRE HUNTING – British YA Fantasy Adventure

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Three boys, a young archer-scientist, an old magician and the story of an endangered race.

James is busy studying. It is colder than it should be for early spring. He feels funny, dizzy, and he is not alone. Around him people are starting to notice that something strange is going on with the earth and the sky. But when inter-dimensional demons attack, demons only he can see, it is up to James to save this world and the other – the connected medieval sister-world.

Available on Amazon in Kindle format.

Sapphire Hunting by J SenGupta

EDIT: Free review copies and excerpt scattergun - 7th November

EDIT: Available at Diesel store - 19th November

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I have sixteen review copies available in epub and mobi formats created using Calibre. I can mail you a copy in your preferred format and request reviews only if you feel moved to write them. Reviews cross-posted to amazon uk doubly appreciated. Could also generate a pdf if that would be preferable.

Excerpt scattergun!

“The warm red behind his eyes glowed again; he opened his dry eyelids, his vision cleared. He shut his eyes, listening for the heartbeat that had led him this far. He could not hear it. Nothing. Or perhaps it was being drowned out by the thunder of the rainfall on the dark water. It streamed down. In minutes he was trembling. He opened his eyes, and looked in consternation at his blue fingernails. He breathed on them, clasped his hands under his arms. That made his skin sore. Between him and the fortress there was ocean. The high ground above the mad water stretched forward, twisting slowly. There seemed to be nothing to do but walk.”
- excerpt from Chapter Two of Sapphire Hunting by J SenGupta

“People do not really sneer at other people, James found. But there is a sort of non-acknowledgement, a way of looking over people. The first reason James remembered that day was that this time there had been a surprisingly direct look from Ablunson as he coasted by. On that one occasion they had met each others glances; James thought he saw a faint nod. He almost smiled back, but the moment passed quickly. James heard G. Ablunson get back to his conversation with a gesture towards James. ‘Hard-working type who will probably obtain a tolerable pass,’ were the words that James caught.”
- excerpt from Chapter Four of Sapphire Hunting by J SenGupta

“James could not back away from the Dark Man. The man revolved, and his body clarified, more solid now than smoke. With deep eye-sockets turned to James he hung in that same spot, behind the black iron post. Black on black. Still, inanimate. Not a man. A horrible thing. Quite, quite still. James held his breath.”
- excerpt from Chapter Six of Sapphire Hunting by J SenGupta

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Four review copies of Sapphire Hunting available.

On sale at Amazon and now also at the Diesel ebook store.



“Late in the night, the moon shone down, painting slivers of white on the edge of the table, the wardrobe, the folds of the coat hung on the back of the door. The wind breathed through the half-open window.
James sat on the windowsill and surveyed the nightscape. The glass of the window was cool against the side of his face. Night-birds called. He breathed with the wind, watched the ground rise and fall. He bent his head low and forced a shaft of light from the horizon into the livid mauve sky, his brow knitted. It felt like fire in his chest.”
- excerpt from Chapter Eight of Sapphire Hunting by J SenGupta