Samuel Simons

The Last Spellbound House Samuel Simons

Pyke has a simple mission: find the Last Spellbound House; identify its lingering magics; then seize or destroy those magics to prevent their misuse.
Unfortunate, then, that the House itself stands ready to fight him.



"The smallest meaningful unit of magical power is one mortal life."
So said the Fae and the Dead who ruled the Spellbound World... until they vanished, along with its sunlight.

A century ago, an apocalypse of magic tore all but one of the world's artificial suns from its skies. The feudal Phoenix Kingdom which rose from the ashes has yet to solve the mystery of the cataclysm's origin, or determine why the undying ancients disappeared so completely.

Pyke is a scholar-adventurer tasked with seeking the magical inventions the missing tyrants left behind. His mission has brought him to the Last Spellbound House, a mansion whose rumoured remnants of magical technologies will prove to be the least of the dangers awaiting him. He will need the help of an aspiring wayfinder named Jenna, as well as aid from some even more unlikely allies, to save the lives of two hundred innocents and combat a long-sleeping force capable of extinguishing the flames of the Phoenix Kingdom for good.



Set in a dark fantasy world recovering from a magical armageddon, The Last Spellbound House is a suspenseful adventure perfect for readers of Steven Erikson or Christopher Paolini. A steampunk novel with magitechnology running like an undercurrent beneath the surface of its epic tales, The Last Spellbound House is full of characters who make use of, and fight against, the remnant workings of an ancient civilization. The first book in the War Eternal's Ashes series constructs an immersive setting from the ground up with a Tolkien-style worldbuilding technique, complete with fictional languages and its own larger-than-life mythology.

Book 2, The Stars of Ruin, will release by December 2021.

Content Warning: This tale is rife with Dead technology and Fae magic, but it also portrays human beings: their passions, terrors, and traumas. As such, there is content some readers may find distressing. See the copyright page for more details.

May your hearth be warm and your travels safe, Journeyers.

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