The Underoveron Trilogy Begins...
“In the Hour of the First Turning, the Lord of Under awakes
And remembers that beneath the above and over the below,
The lives of the people turn with the tide and the light.
Turned, turning. Hour of the First Turning.”
The ritual calling of the Hours begins another day, but this day will be like no other. The Lord of Under receives his betrothed, the Lady Arrant of Over, to the caverns of his demesne. The welcoming ceremony is invaded by huge, bulging faces erupting from the stone of Under’s walls. Bittercalls appear – creatures that eat fear and drink chaos – groaning and howling wordless warnings of disaster.
Failures are revealed, calamities intrude, even the relentless accuracy of the Water Clock becomes unstable. The sanctuary that Under had so desperately hoped for is being shattered – by the very community that clings to ritualized order for their salvation.
From the chaos of the predicted disasters individuals emerge; flawed, earnest, searching for any knowledge or understanding that might stop the flow of catastrophes. Andeved, the Lord of Under’s younger cousin and friend. Kendle, the younger cousin of Lady Arrant of Over. Mote, a junior marchale of Over. And Belwether, an Observer from On who is bound by intimations of destiny to the boy, Andeved.
Closely held knowledge, fear, cultural deceits, rage and the pursuit of power clash as Under scrabbles for survival. Will the individuals that emerge, flawed though they be, have the determination to expose what is on the way to finding what could be? The lives of the people turned, turning.
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The Corronheld Passing
There is a place where truth is, literally, a two-edged sword.
And it cuts both ways.
Abducted, taken to a near-cousin world, she is to be made into a weapon of destruction. Wrapping himself in duty and grief, he turns a blind eye to the resident nature of the coming darkness. Then the Passing is triggered. The lives of all past rulers flood into the wrong person. Now both of them, and all they hold dear, are in peril. Yes, there is magic to be practiced in this place, but the cost is tragically high.
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The Millennium Box
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association fiction prize, this atmospheric novella was inspired by what the author found while hiking on San Juan Island in Puget Sound. Down a little used forest service road, there is a mausoleum with Knights Templar buried in it. There is a little known holiday called Epiphany that celebrates that the arrival of the three Wise Men. All of this is public knowledge. But so much else is not known.