title: The Obsidian Chimera: The Lost Ancients" Book Two (Volume 2)
author:  Marie Andreas 
description: Marie is a fantasy and science fiction reader with a serious writing addiction. If she wasn't writing about all the people in her head, she'd be lurking about coffee shops annoying total strangers with her stories. So really, writing is a way of saving the masses. Her first fantasy trilogy, The Lost Ancients, starts with The Glass Gargoyle coming out in March 2015, with book two, The Obsidian Chimera, following in fall 2015, and book three, The Emerald Dragon, coming out in winter 2015/2016. The rest of the series (currently planned at six books total) will be out in 2016 and 2017. When not saving the masses from coffee shop shenanigans, Marie likes to visit the UK and keeps hoping someone will give her a nice summer home in the Forest of Dean. To find out more about the books, and future series, please visit her website at www.marieandreas.com--especially if you happen to have a small cottage to give her.
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  # A CURIOUS INVASION
  
  
  BY  
  MARIE ANDREAS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## BOOKS BY MARIE ANDREAS
  
  
  **The Lost Ancients**
  
  
  Book One: The Glass Gargoyle
  
  
  Book Two: The Obsidian Chimera
  
  
  Book Three: The Emerald Dragon
  
  
  Book Four: The Sapphire Manticore
  
  
  Book Five: The Golden Basilisk
  
  
  Book Six: The Diamond Sphinx
  
  
  **The Asarlaí Wars**
  
  
  Book One: Warrior Wench
  
  
  Book Two: Victorious Dead
  
  
  Book Three: Defiant Ruin
  
  
  **The Adventures of Smith and Jones**
  
  
  Book One: A Curious Invasion
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
  
  [Title Page](part0000.html#i1)
  
  
  [Books by Marie Andreas](part0001.html#i2)
  
  
  [_Chapter One_](part0003.html#i3)
  
  
  [_Chapter Two_](part0004.html#i4)
  
  
  [_Chapter Three_](part0005.html#i5)
  
  
  [_Chapter Four_](part0006.html#i6)
  
  
  [_Chapter Five_](part0007.html#i7)
  
  
  [_Chapter Six_](part0008.html#i8)
  
  
  [_Chapter Seven_](part0009.html#i9)
  
  
  [_Chapter Eight_](part0010.html#i10)
  
  
  [_Chapter Nine_](part0011.html#i11)
  
  
  [_Chapter Ten_](part0012.html#i12)
  
  
  [_Chapter Eleven_](part0013.h