The story is filled with elemental magic and twists that keep the reader drawn into the story. Many human families took to ships and became pirates in order to survive. Six hundred years later, one family, the Oberonsm father, mother, three brothers and three sisters, find themselves are attacked by a Nightweaver ship.

Rumours are rife that they are cannibals and use the humans they capture as slaves - and livestock. So, not only are they hated but also feared and in this particular attack, there is hand-to-hand fighting with cutlasses, daggers and pistols.

However, they are overcome, resulting in the death of the oldest brother, captured and shackled. The family are taken back to Dread where they are to be either hanged or sold into slavery.

Gray is an exceptionally descriptive writer and uses the unusual format of writing the novel in the present tense and using the first person singular, from the perspective of one of the sisters, Aster.

As the story unfolds, you will discover that Gray is also a terrific storyteller. Nightweaver is agreat page turner and well written, It will most likely appeal readers who enjoy fantasy novels, 

The author

R.M. Gray hails from a quaint Texas town best known for its soda, shiplap, and mammoth graveyards. She lives beside a field of bluebonnets with her film-fanatic husband and two giant dogs, where she enjoys writing stories about pirates, magic, mystery and all things fantastical. A self-proclaimed expert at whistling and a dedicated collector of lightsabers, she spends her days drinking too much earl grey tea, re-watching old cartoons, and thinking up new ways to break readers’ hearts.