Tales from an Unexpected Universe: Fantasy Collection: The Gatekeepers of Genthor, Guardians of the Field, The Magic Hour

THREE TALES OF FANTASY, OVER 700 PAGES, THAT TAKE YOU INTO WORLDS OF INTENSE IMAGINATION AND POWERFUL JOURNEYS INTO LANDSCAPES OF THE UNKNOWN

THE GATEKEEPERS OF GENTHOR
A dark legacy... A hidden enemy... A doorway into a virtual world... A young brother and sister in a medieval land who must hunt a killer.

On journeys into the enchanted forest of Aginmare, Gwendolen receives training in the ancient art of the Esoteric, to master inner vision. At home in the summer fields of Genthor, Will trains in the longbow with his uncle, a monk in a nearby monastery, and sees himself as a spiritual warrior. Their lives seem cloistered and safe.

Until a nameless and unseen intruder threatens their world.

Gwendolen and Will find themselves immersed in a dark journey. Extraordinary help comes to them, first through Gideon, Will's falcon, who teaches him the power of silence in war. Then there is Ga Fael Fawr, the gatekeeper of Aginmare, who gives Gwendolen a sword that is much more than a weapon.

They must find the way soon, for the intruder has already crossed the barrier of the esoteric, and broken the line between worlds.

GUARDIANS OF THE FIELD
A doomsday trigger. A field of magic. A desperate call to those who can see beyond the veil of life and death.

The field of the Esarad is the home of scryers, ageless ones who enter both future and past at will. Karin Anavid must protect her young daughter, born a scryer, from those who would harm her. Maeta, a guardian of the Esarad, guides them both in a desperate race across a land gutted by war. They face a ruler obsessed with finding a hidden route through the ice mountains of Scrinac into the Esarad to annihilate it, and the betrayal of an old friend whose greed has consumed him into darkness.

And there is Yorajil, a child of light, who follows her mother and guardian but is led by forces she barely understands to find her true home.

Each one is drawn inexorably toward the ruined city of Alcedama and a doomsday trigger that lies at the heart of an ancient prophecy.

THE MAGIC HOUR
Before full night comes, when the air is indigo and objects less distinct, time and space can shift...this is the magic hour. For homicide detective Nathan Byrne, it is a time that signals chaos. As he tracks down art thefts connected to a murder in an abandoned mine, his head injury from a car accident triggers blackouts that pull him into the shadows of an alternate world, one that seems to be more than a hallucination.

Sent by his captain into a backwater small town in the Pacific Northwest to get his act together, Nathan finds himself drawn to the slower pace of life the town holds, to the work of solving a real-life murder with the local sheriff, and to Sela, an artist and preacher. But the blackouts continue and each time he is drawn deeper into the destiny of the alternate world called Elaimat whose leader, Naliv, tells him her world cannot survive without his help.

Nathan knows he needs to be healed, that surgery is the only way, but he resists. Yet as the border between the two worlds begins to merge, he is no longer sure he can remember which one is real.