Novels
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For four years, King Ligred’s rule has been declining. He grows volatile, unforgiving of opposition and certain of victory over the renegade Thane holed up in Dreikjil. But four years besieging an unbreakable fortress have taken a toll on the kingdom. He yearns to restore the valorous ages, days of glorious battles and innumerable heroes. All the while, his subjects yearn only to see their sons and fathers again. In attempting to resurrect the gilded past, Ligred turns his own people against him.
Morgnson, an advisor to the King, has forseen the end of his reign. He his fellow advisors plot how they might sway Ligred from continuing the siege. Already some have been punished for speaking too honestly, and the King grows less trusting. As Morgnson’s safety as advisor becomes less certain, so too does the line between prudence and cowardice.
Set at the turning of the Fourth Age, Green on the Snow is a tale that pursues courage, wisdom, and the qualities of a just leader against the backdrop of a kingdom whose leaves have begun to fall. Filled with political intrigue, conflicts of the heart and mind, and contrasts in innocence and corruption, the novel is ultimately human.
Located in eastern Tir, the lakeland known as the Liburjad, there are many towns like Dindohl. Steeped in a rich heritage of simple living and honest work, the Liburjad is less willing to change than the majority of Tir’s regions. But Sverald, Wellborn master of Dindohl, knows that change is coming—with or without the fishermen’s consent. The simple life of the fishermen is being consistently pressed upon and will, sooner or later, be invaded. His hope is to guide Dindohl toward a better change, one that may secure for it the simple living its tenants hold so dear.
Mirjen, daughter of a stubborn fisherman, also sees that change is inevitable. She sees her aging father struggle to make ends meet, she sees the war between heritage and survival, and she seeks her place in a culture that must adapt or die. She yearns for both a simple and complex solution, an escape from the life that is expected of her, yet one that will secure the safety of her parents.
The perfect solution arises in a proposition put forth by a local fisherman: the harvest of salmon eggs. While certainly the most logical choice, Sverald encounters great opposition when encouraging the fishermen to take it. An outsider to their ancestral trade, he must tread carefully. All the while, he himself yearns for an escape from the trappings of wealth and noble birth, a snare his sister has long since yielded to.
Nestled in the Southern Moors, far from Tir’s political strife, rests the quiet village of Hestle. The sun rises, stretching morning over the hills and Garbie, the village’s treasured widow, takes a basket to the gatehouse. She has stuffed it with bread, several cheeses, and a little tea. She knows the faithful gatekeeper will appreciate her company—providing he’s awake, of course.
Sysle is Hestle’s only physician, and begins his rounds. He takes shrewd care to prick and prod his patients to ensure they’re being honest with him. He feels no need, of course to be equally honest with them; such a virtue is bad for business, particularly in a corner of the kingdom where his abilities are not properly appreciated. His apprentice, Boris, has been working in the kitchen since dawn, mixing potions and herbal poultices. With little mind for the grander scheme of things, he sees to his work with much less ambition than his master. His mind is better set toward quiet nights and gentle things, rarely even does he consider his orphan-hood.
The lives of these three are soon to be interrupted by the appearance of a stranger at the gate, an old soldier with silver hair and a tilted gait. He carries a rusted broadsword and information on one of the villagers...
The Dark House
Plagued by a mysterious disease known only as Mania, the city of Sorfell is falling apart. Just as dangerous as Mania, however, is the scourge of fear that has taken the city. It spreads like wildfire and turns neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend. Rumors of a violent cult spread through the streets. Taxes are constantly increased. Men and women work themselves to death in the mines and steel mills—Sorfell is dying.
Like others of her social class, Maeve works herself toward an early grave in order to survive. With an ill mother, the task of providing is becoming impossible. Her last hope is a position as a maid at a mysterious house known only as The Dark House.
Secrets abound and answers flee, all while fear escalates. At the center of it all is Ms. Maud, the unseen hand that spreads throughout the city. The lives she has manipulated are slowly coming back to her, however, and the Dark House—and everyone in it—soon falls under grave suspicion…
Epilos
Hundreds of years after Elevation, the floating islands of Epilos are in uneasy peace above the scarred surface of Annulus.
Memories of lost loved ones, nightmares of a horrible massacre; Barok wakes every morning with these thoughts racing through his tortured mind. After the extinction of his people thirty years ago, he separated his floating island from Epilos—isolating himself from the world he once served. Along with his island, he sealed away the painful memories of his past and the ancient power he once possessed, all in an effort to forget.
As a new threat stirs and Barok is called to save Epilos once again, he must regain his power and memory in order to face the fear he has buried for so long.
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The Odyssey of Jason Peterson
Jason Peterson, a young man with a wife and two-year-old daughter, is suddenly woken to a masked intruder kidnapping his daughter. As any father would, he pursues the man, only to be taken a thousand years in the future. He wakes in a strange and backward time, separated from his daughter. Will this stop Jason? Heaven forbid.
Jason begins an epic quest to travel the new world, reclaim his daughter, and return to his wife. His travels are long and arduous, he meets heroes and villains, enduring in the hopes of finding his daughter.
But as committed as Jason is, he knows that he is racing against the impartial hand of time. Every day spent away from his daughter increases her development and adjustment to the new world. He knows that if he does not find her soon, she may forget him and her mother entirely, becoming a child of the new world.
Will he make it in time? Will Jason be reunited first with his daughter and then with his wife? Only time will tell…
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The Connected
What if humanity was able to form a connection that surpassed the surface-level knowledge of one another our perception is now limited to? As Gallo rejoins the Police Force, he interviews Dr. Lind, a man convinced that he can bring about world peace by scientifically connecting minds. As Gallo delves deeper into Lind’s philosophy, he digs even further into his own beliefs and begins to question what human connection means.
The Devil's Prospects
Apogehen’s job is to inspect demonic management: to report on the efficiency of his fellow demons and ensure that churches are being drawn away. As he visits three churches: Agatos, Pseston, and Piskro, he comes to learn of new tactics and methods being employed throughout the supernatural plane. He observes as churches are led away through subtle lies and corrupted truths, as congregations become null to the Holy Spirit’s conviction, and as church leaders deny God’s calling and lead their sheep astray. And he laughs as the church becomes a pulpit for the devil’s lies...