{"id":558,"date":"2025-05-15T09:25:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T15:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:26:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T15:26:03","slug":"darkness-rising-book-three-the-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/darkness-rising-book-three-the-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Darkness Rising Book Three: The Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"655\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"557\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/tower-kindle-cover-2025\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulbspence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Tower-Kindle-Cover-2025.jpg?fit=1059%2C1655\" data-orig-size=\"1059,1655\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tower Kindle Cover 2025\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulbspence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Tower-Kindle-Cover-2025.jpg?fit=192%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulbspence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Tower-Kindle-Cover-2025.jpg?fit=655%2C1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulbspence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Tower-Kindle-Cover-2025.jpg?resize=655%2C1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulbspence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Tower-Kindle-Cover-2025.jpg?resize=655%2C1024 655w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulbspence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Tower-Kindle-Cover-2025.jpg?resize=192%2C300 192w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulbspence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Tower-Kindle-Cover-2025.jpg?resize=768%2C1200 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulbspence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Tower-Kindle-Cover-2025.jpg?resize=983%2C1536 983w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulbspence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Tower-Kindle-Cover-2025.jpg?w=1059 1059w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Ancient Enemy are awakening\u2026<\/strong><br><br>Daeren Drake has put together pieces of the plot against him and doesn&#8217;t like what he suspects.<br><br>Although war with the Golden Kingdom has been averted, some of the royal family there are still spoiling for a fight. Drake isn&#8217;t one to back down, but he knows better than anyone that a war would only serve the true enemy.<br><br>The forces of darkness have a new leader. Drake fears he knows who that leader is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Tower<\/em> is currently available for preorder on Kindle, and will be available on Kindle and Paperback June 1St 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Tower (Darkness Rising Book 3)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"840\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_XuM4XhQkApckyK&#038;asin=B0F8KPHQW4&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ancient Enemy are awakening\u2026 Daeren Drake has put together pieces of the plot against him and doesn&#8217;t like what he suspects. Although war with the Golden Kingdom has been averted, some of the royal family there are still spoiling for a fight. Drake isn&#8217;t one to back down, but he knows better than anyone &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/darkness-rising-book-three-the-tower\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Darkness Rising Book Three: The Tower&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8J0MD-90","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}