The Outpost was a squat stone structure that was ringed on all sides by high thick walls that were honeycombed with stairways, arrow loops and topped with crenellations festooned with ancient barbed wire. There were dozens of Outposts scattered along the Verge, marking the point of demarcation between the nurturing safety of the Protectorate and the madness of the Barrens. . . .
Things that crawl in the shadows, spirits of unsettled dead, arcane mysteries in our current age . . . Fiction, Fantasy, Imagination. Each person can be reborn at least once in his own mind. Each one of us can close his eyes and picture himself as something different, finding in the myths the courage to maintain his stability in the pressing life that encircles . . .
Book One begins with Tylor Sabre awakening from an unnaturally deep sleep to find that havoc has rained down on his island village. His father has gone missing and bizarre dreams begin plaguing him. What starts as a search for his father soon cascades into something far more catastrophic. When Tylor learns that something powerful has been passed down in . . .
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This is a well-written novella. It’s full of details that hint of a fascinating story ‘verse. In this story we only see a small slice of things. The author manages to fit quite a bit of character background without bogging down the flow of the story. This story feels like it should be part of a larger work. It would [more . . .]