My good friend, the highly talented Lorenzo Hall (also known as Benji-Blacksky (https://www.deviantart.com/benji-blacksky)) has just released his debut novel. Desert Rain is a well written and interesting fantasy story set within the desert nation of Ashira, besieged by civil unrest and a fierce drought.
If you're a fan of high fantasy, I strongly recommend picking it up; it's plot is engaging and well written, the characters are strong and though it may tread familiar ground, it does so with good execution and highly polished narrative. Th world is very strong, with a firm grounding in fantasy but also diverging from the tired and token (or tolikien ;)) elf/dwarf/human in the e