COLD COUNSEL

Cold Counsel follows Slud, the last Troll of the Blood Claw Clan. He has been raised as an instrument of vengeance by his Aunt Agnes, but she’s created more than she bargained for. On his quest to exact revenge from the Rock Wolf goblin clan, Slud is reluctantly joined by a antisocial and indestructible goblin warrior, a power-hungry goblin mage, the last wolf descended from Fenris, a scribe, and the powerful entity who used to be his Aunt Agnes.

Every one of these characters is flawed, unscrupulous, and ruthless—and all the more delightful for it. It’s Conan the Barbarian meets Tolkien!

CHRIS SHARP grew up in the suburban wonderland of Alexandria, VA, where he cut his nerd teeth playing role-playing games and making gore movies with his friends. He studied English Literature and Anthropology at Brown University, and Mayan Archaeology at the Harvard Field School in Honduras. He then spent sixteen years in Brooklyn, NY, where he worked in film and commercial production by day, and was yet another wannabe novelist by night. Some of the films he made with his childhood friends have gained international distribution and won numerous awards at festivals around the world. His first novel, The Elementalists, is the first in a dark YA series and was called one of the “Overlooked Books of 2014”, by Slate Magazine. Chris now lives in Concord, MA, with his wife, daughter and an insufferable cat named Goblin.