Bright Star Over Briar is the first book in the new six part high fantasy series, The Rings of Fate by Cam Buchanan. It’s a stunning new take on the core ideas of an old and much loved fiction icon.

Bright Star introduces a world not unlike JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth but with the subtly transformative element that the rings of power are not immutably evil.

Buchanan revels in exploring this concept of power as a hidden potential rather than power as inevitable evil, seen in light of the truth that it is our choices alone which create evil, and his characters work together with altruistic unity of purpose to reveal the means to unlock these potentials.

Within the broad framework of a classic tale of good versus evil, the heroic upholders of peace and justice in this semi-historical pre-medieval world that is Midgard, not Middle Earth, find unique ways to achieve success in the fierce battle against the clever and enigmatic prime antagonist, Svarangr, an iconic character of ancient myth hiding with conceited amusement behind a new persona.