Category: Fantasy Type: Fiction
Pages: 400
Copyright: Oct 11, 2009
ISBN-13: 2940000720554
Life is a river. Earth, a conduit.
Liz Bowen, wife of mission doctor Frank Bowen, goes missing in the wilds of Belize. The constables of San Ignacio can find no trace. On a pilgrimage years later to her remote 'grave', Frank is abducted and whisked away to a place he can't identify, by people whose motives and origins baffle him. Is this what happened to Liz? Might she still be alive?
Excerpt
Frank lay bound and on his side. Thin cords bit into his wrists and ankles. Inches from his face, ants scrambled from their mound, spreading like brushfire, spoiling for war.
He wriggled away. A knee stopped him. A sandaled foot rose from a thicket of legs and planted his head in the humus. His nostrils filled with dead leaf musk and something foul, like peccary spoor, and the faintest whiff of the sweet peas he had carried all the way from Bethesda for Liz, their stems all strewn and trampled beside him.
A handfull of survivors wash ashore from a ship wreck in a strange new world. Two centuries later their descendants have populated the Islands they found and are now striving to populate a mainland infested with trolls and dragons. Only some of the
A crusade against an ancient evil.
A brotherhood bound by oath.
A victory that will cost everything.
This chivalric epic, lost for centuries, now in the refurbished language of Malory. A crew of disenfranch
