Category: Book Extras

From here out, magic takes the reins. For all the realism and the grounded parameters the story nodded to thus far, this is not historical fiction. It’s fantasy. A compelling future fantasy, and a different take on the reality we face. The reality we humans, in this cycle, have...

This is another of those pivotal chapters. Key to the endgame. The slow build to realizing the Thunderbird, the Ayohotulee, is the big plot point. But there’s more going on. First, the shadow world, the Mists, is here, present, and actively engaged in getting this melding done. The force...

A short note that seems in need of saying. I imagined and wrote the Drowner and the Green Death plagues well before reality beset us with a real pandemic in COVID-19. The death toll of 1.47 million worldwide (as of tonight, 2020/11/30) is real, not fantasy. The lockdowns, quarantines,...

There’s a lot to digest here, and it’s key to the endgame. If you want to tie all the threads together on your own, skip reading this bonus page. Or come back to it later. First, Redan lays out for us the cycles that matter, in order: Human Cycle....

Brynmohr held onto his name. Melt into the One? No, he has too many wayward children who need someone around to keep them out of trouble. This is another chapter I deleted and added back. More than once. While I needed to address what happens to Taegan and Serena,...

Aw, man. Seth, what the hell were you thinking? You make such a big deal out of free will, and go on and on about how you won’t use your mindriding on anyone. Then what do you do? Turn that mindriding loose on the woman you love. Isobel isn’t...

What’s up with Calum? Sadly, the Beast is back. When Calum took the throne, Dowan came slithering out of the shadows. All his life, he had craved the power of that throne. Until death had denied him what was rightfully his. Wrongful death at the hands of a thieving...

Duncan is not the most noble character in the bunch, granted. But nobility gets boring after a while. He’s more of a grey-hat sort. With Seara for a mother and spending his formative years with the whole dysfunctional Gruder family living under one roof, he’s got some baggage, all...

Wow. What just happened? At least, that’s the reaction I was hoping for when writing this chapter. It was one of those I didn’t see coming. It just sort of wrote itself once I got Tobias and company to the island. The threads that come together on their own...