Welcome to a new cover reveal!

Today we have the pleasure of help reveal the cover of The Walled City, fifth book in the Triempery Revelations series, one of my favourite epic fantasy series, written by L.L. Stephens, published by Forest Path Books.

Let's take a look at the blurb:

Dorilian opened the Rill god machine to the much-maligned Khelds but has been forced to flee north, far from his Rill Entity.

On his heels are shattered alliances and an unhappy woman determined to see him again.

In Essera’s Royal North he will confront two powerful foes: the sorcerer Nammuor, who seeks to harvest Dorilian’s immortal blood, and the Time-spanning Entity of the Wall.

Dorilian is far from helpless, however. He has godborn powers—and the time has come to reveal them.

The Walled City is the fifth, and penultimate, book of a six-book series, The Triempery Revelations.

The final book, The Rill Lord, is written and being edited. It will be published in early 2026.

The cover has been designed by Larry Rostant.

The Walled City will be published the April 21st, 2025.

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L.L. Stephens

L.L. Stephens is a pen name. The author is somewhat along in years and has enjoyed—let’s just call it that—a long career as a published author. Her first book was published by DAW when she was 29 and an editor at DAW encouraged her to write Sordaneon as an entry point into her Triempery series. But then life happened. (It was ugly.)
When L.L. (her real initials) could not find an agent in the 2000s she had modest publishing success as a writer of erotic romances. Giving up on ever snagging an agent for her series (few things are more painful than being an older author trying to land an agent), L.L. accepted an invitation from a small independent press, Forest Path Books, to publish the series—which by that point had been fully written. Of course she accepted: nothing is making L.L. happier than seeing her hard work being discovered and embraced by readers.