Greetings, travelers!  We start this week in the Otherworld looking to the brightness of a mysterious new planet.  But that’s not the sun, no.  It’s glowing mushrooms that have curious properties.  This story is great for those who like darker fantasies that are illuminated with touches of sci-fi or steampunk elements.  If that’s piqued your interest, read on to learn more about Glowing Ambition (Returnity Book 1).

For his debut feature fantasy, author Jeffrey Pons sets an entire planet alight in Glowing Ambition (Returnity Book 1).  A great feeling of exploration hangs over the world, as if it’s shedding its skin and growing new features, and Pons finds great ways to give readers a front row seat to the action.  Along the way, he’s afflicted people living there with peculiar maladies, and infested the world with fungal invaders, giving the setting a curious presence indeed.  Though the world is bleak in some ways, it’s beautiful in others, and it has a cast of characters that is interesting to follow as they guide the readers toward new revelations, and darker secrets beyond the shadowy veil.

Ambition glows brightest when the world begins to rot.

Barron Alarie was supposed to inherit the future. Instead, it crumbled beneath him.

When a cosmic anomaly devastates the planet of Tethia—aging its victims by fifty years in an instant—society fractures. Alien mushrooms overtake cities. Power-hungry factions rise. And Barron, once the golden boy of Nero Company, is left behind.

But ambition doesn’t die easy.

Drawn into the web of the influential Alchemy Guild, Barron begins designing again—only this time, he may be laying the groundwork for something far darker than architecture. As secrets rot the world from within, Barron must choose between survival… and salvation.

Glowing Ambition is a slow-burn fantasy of ambition, decay, and power—perfect for readers who like their epics thoughtful, dangerous, and morally gray.

This fantasy debut takes gradual, thoughtful steps to set up the world, making everything feel rich and lived-in, perfect for a world that toils in peculiar pain and suffering.  Throughout it all though, Pons balances the excitement of ingenuity with the potential darkness of ambition.  As the world changes, so too does it’s great potential, and the author takes every opportunity to explore that.  And with the promise yet of things undiscovered on Tethia, there’s never been a better time to take an adventure.  Check out Glowing Ambition (Returnity Book 1) on Amazon today!

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