The Silent Tempest

Michael G Manning

May 2015 · Embers of Illeniel Book 2 · Michael Manning

About this ebook

The story of the first Illeniel wizard continues.  Tyrion’s life among the She’Har had become quiet, but the sins of his youth have returned to haunt him.  The Mordan wardens have discovered one of his children, and the other groves are racing to find and claim the rest of his illegitimate offspring. Unable to stand by and watch as his children are used as pawns against one another, Tyrion makes a hard choice, one that will set him against everyone and everything he cares for.

Others’ love had made his children strong, but his hate would make them powerful.

Ratings and reviews

Only a truly great author can convey the people in a story so perfectly that one is drawn to them beyond belief, as though the characters left the book and met you many times years ago somewhere. Michael Manning has not only accomplished this, he had done so in a way I have yet to discover. I am eagerly awaiting for the third book to arrive.

WOW! Just abso-freaking-lutely entertaining. Lost the better part of a Saturday devouring this 2nd part of an amazing prequel to what has become one of my favorite stories. Recommended? Oh, heck yeah!

This guy is a great writer! Ok let me explain, I read the whole mageborn series; the kids stories, and the riven series before these, and I hated Tyrion before these. Now that read it, I don't think there's been a villian I come to respect (and secretly admire) more than Tyrion. Man how do you do it? Seriously, now I'm anxious for the 3rd book in the riven series to see how things will turn out between my boy Mordecai and Tyrion. But don't rush it Mike keep delivering that gold!

About the author

Michael Manning was born in Cleveland, Texas and spent his formative years there, reading fantasy and science fiction, concocting home grown experiments in his backyard, and generally avoiding schoolwork.

Eventually he went to college, starting at Sam Houston State University, where his love of beer blossomed and his obsession with playing role-playing games led him to what he calls 'his best year ever' and what most of his family calls 'the lost year'.

Several years and a few crappy jobs later, he decided to pursue college again and was somehow accepted into the University of Houston Honors program (we won't get into the particulars of that miracle).  This led to a degree in pharmacy and it followed from there that he wound up with a license to practice said profession.

Unfortunately, Michael was not a very good pharmacist.  Being relatively lawless and free spirited were not particularly good traits to possess in a career focused on perfection, patient safety, and the letter-of-the-law.  Nevertheless, he persisted and after a stint as a hospital pharmacy manager wound up as a pharmacist working in correctional managed care for the State of Texas.

He gave drugs to prisoners.

After a year or two at UTMB he became bored and taught himself entirely too much about networking, programming, and database design and administration.  At first his supervisors warned him (repeatedly) to do his assigned tasks and stop designing programs to help his coworkers do theirs, but eventually they gave up and just let him do whatever he liked since it seemed to be generally working out well for them.

Ten or eleven years later and he got bored with that too.  So he wrote a book.  We won't talk about where he was when he wrote 'The Blacksmith's Son', but let's just assume he was probably supposed to be doing something else at the time.

Some people liked the book and told other people.  Now they won't leave him alone.

After another year or two, he decided to just give up and stop pretending to be a pharmacist/programmer, much to the chagrin of his mother (who had only ever wanted him to grow up to be a doctor and had finally become content with the fact that he had settled on pharmacy instead).

Michael's wife supported his decision, even as she stubbornly refused to believe he would make any money at it.  It turned out later that she was just telling him this because she knew that nothing made Michael more contrary than his never ending desire to prove her wrong.  Once he was able to prove said fact she promptly admitted her tricky ruse and he has since given up on trying to win.

Today he lives at home with his stubborn wife, teenage twins, a giant moose-poodle, two yorkies, a green-cheeked conure, a massive prehistoric tortoise, and a head full of imaginary people.  There are also some fish, but he refuses to talk about them.