Jayel Gibson

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Following a 13 year teaching career which earned her two ‘Teacher of the Year’ awards, Jayel Gibson’s sense of mythology drove her to create the Ancient Mirrors Tales, a series of books that delve into an ancient and magical world. She is an Amazon Celtic Mythology bestselling author, and the recipient of two USA Book News ‘2007 Best Books’ Finalist Awards, and the 2008 National Indie Excellence Award for fantasy and science fiction.

In addition to a full-time writing career, Jayel serves as an adjunct professor at Southwestern Oregon Community College, where she teaches the writing for publication workshop series, “From Brainstorm to Book and Beyond.” She has been a contributor for Dallas Child and Louisiana Parents magazines, Education.com and Thefatherlife.com. She is also a popular conference speaker, and is the online book club moderator for Realms of Fantasy magazine.

Quondam: An Ancient Mirror’s Tale

Jayel Gibson
Synergy Books (2008)
ISBN 9781933538839
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (5/08)

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Synopsis: A murderous queen: Bound in mortal flesh by an angry god, a once ethereal nymph murders Quondam's king and seizes the throne. All who do not bow before her die in the agony that is dragons breath. But, there is threat of a challenger to this brutal reign, a legend's promised savior. Fearful, Queen Karid has the suspect captured, condemned and sentenced to an eternity alone.

A condemned dragonspawn: Born of man and magick, cursed at birth by his terrified mother, a young dragonspawn is branded a demon, a threat to Quondam's queen, and sentenced to a millennium of solitude. His only freedom now found in dreams, he searches among a universe of sleepers for a woman born beneath the sign of the dragon, a woman believed to hold the key to his release.

And the woman thrust between them: Her family and homeland destroyed by an otherworldly assassin s fire, Cwen of Aaradan, niece of the Dragon Queen, escapes through a mysterious portal into Quondam. There, Cwen discovers her fate and an imprisoned dragonspawns are intertwined in ways that will drag her, heartbroken and vengeful, into the midst of a devastating war.