The Tempest Awakes

Photo: A detail from La Tempesta by Giorgione (1503-1504), Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice

My novel I’m working on, Volume 2 of The Tempest Trilogy, officially has a name: The Tempest Awakes. This is a preliminary synopsis of the book:

Come to the yellow sands of The Tempest, a marvellous uninhabited island full of voices, sounds and sweet airs! Join Sycorax, Miranda, Ariel and Aurora in their quest for a new existence full of magic. While the tree stands on the shore acting as a protection spell and channeling vision into her companions’ hearts with her oracle sentences, Sycorax, Miranda and Ariel start exploring the island, each creating their own dwelling and finding true purpose and meaning in life.

As The Tempest awakes, though, so does Eriskegal. Once queen of the underworld, she was later trapped in the emptiness beyond spacetime by an evil male god, who stole all her magic and condemned her to float into endless non-existence. But now, after centuries of immobility, a sound from a land of her past called The Tempest ripples through spacetime breaking the cycle of oblivion shrouding her mind and limbs. Gradually, memories recompose themselves alongside flesh and bones, soon letting all her unmitigable rage against the vile god pour forth. Rebuilding her dark realm will surely help her find power once again, but will the evil god answer her call for retribution? And how will The Tempest’s inhabitants be of any use to her plan? Caught in her own oscillations between trance, violence and awakening, will Sycorax manage to find balance while welcoming Eriskegal’s presence, or will her quest for uncompromised darkness unleash destruction on the island and her companions?

Inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest and written in a richly visual lyrical style, The Tempest Awakes is the second volume of The Tempest Trilogy, a dark mythic fantasy focused on power, oppression, transformation, death and rebirth.