The Handless Swordsman

THE HANDLESS SWORDSMAN isa dark fairy tale set in the land of Esbarra, heavily influenced by Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian history/culture. The story follows Mannero, a soldier stripped of everything: his love, his kingdom, and even his hands, who embarks on a not-so-typical quest for revenge. But he has something no one else can see, the aid of an invisible spirit. This mysterious and sensual being of The Darkness guides Mannero and provides him with the armaments and dreams he needs to defeat the evil that has taken everything from him.Mannero was beginning to have it all. After years of fighting in King Alfonso’s War of Unification, he had a glimpse of what a life of peace could be, and with the love of none other than the king’s own daughter, Princess Clara. Fate, however, had different plans for him. An evil from long ago had been waiting for this exact moment to strike. With cruelty and maliciousness, its soldiers execute their strange plans, killing Esbarra’s ruler and defiling the lands. All seems lost. Handless, broken, and useless, Mannero is on the brink when a familiar spirit attaches herself to him. Finding her knight, Mannero is her soldier at night when he has his hands returned to him, and not even the undead, the strange, or the vilest of foes can stop him on his quest for revenge. Read more