The Gods of Earth, Sun, & Moon

A new world, a new story for 2014.

I grew up largely on my own, as a child. I had an older brother, but he moved out when I was young. For a long time, I felt like an only child. A few years ago, while deciding on topics for stories, I decided to explore the relationship between two siblings who are very close, but through tragedy, are torn apart for years, forced to live their own lives in very different situations. Would they still be as close as they once were when they are finally reunited?  Placing this concept on a backdrop of religious conflict and cosmic secrets, I came up with my newest trilogy.

The Gods of Earth, Sun, & Moon, an enormous epic fantasy, will be told in three parts:

The Light of Theolan (Summer 2014)

In the village of Zedren, a stranger has come. 

Fleeing a fate so terrible he has lost everything he has, Parke Farmer has come to live in the simple village that is so far from where he has come. Married to a Zedrani woman and the proud father of teenage twins, Braden and Brynn, Parke is haunted by feelings that, one day, his past will come back to haunt him.

And return it does, in the form of a shining Paladin. Wielding the magical Light of Theolan, Jerid Geros accuses Parke of the foul murder of his own brother -- and Jerid's father -- a high ranking priest of Theolan. The result is a tragedy that destroys Zedren and tears apart the lives of Parke's twin children.

Braden finds himself Jerid's captive and, as the secret of his father's past is revealed, he discovers he has a grand destiny among the Theolars, the followers of the God of Light, Theolan.

When Braden discovers a hidden evil within the church of Theolan, he must convince Jerid to turn against the only family he has ever known and fight for the Light of Theolan.

Brynn has been so damaged by the events of Jerid's coming that she seeks answers within the mysterious chamber underneath the mystical Shield, an artifact of the Earth Mother, Zedren's patron goddess. Within the chamber, Brynn discovers a secret hidden for millenia that leads her on a path toward her own destiny.

The Servants of Aeve (Fall/Winter 2014)

Brynn and Braden, both believing the other dead, live their own lives amongst very different people.

After discovering the secret of the Earth Mother, Aeve, Brynn must unite the people of Zedren against the coming of the Theolar army.

Taking her place as High Priestess of Aeve will not be easy. As the daughter of an outsider who betrayed the village, she has never been trusted by the survivors of the Paladin's coming. 

It will take miracles to make it happen; miracles the weakened goddess may not have the power to produce. The key may lie beneath the Shield, where an ancient civilization long forgotten waits to be re-awakened.

As Braden and Jerid seek out the nature of the darkness within the church, the High Priest, Vasilis, begins his war of conversion, spreading the Word of Theolan through force of arms.

But there is a third power rising in the land. An ancient name from Theolar's past has returned, decrying the church and fighting back against the Theolar army.

Captured by these rebels, everything Braden and Jerid think they know about their fathers will change.

The Eye of Night (Spring 2015)

The deadly Paladin, Jerid, returns to Zedren, accompanied by a familiar man, now a priest of Theolan.

The reunion of Braden and Brynn accompanies the three-sided war between Theolars, the rebellion, and the world. Caught in the middle is the little village of Zedren, the last remaining bastion of the Earth Mother, with the Shield the last lock on the prison of an evil older than Theolar.

When the Zedrani Shield is destroyed, the last lock will be broken and the gate to hell will be thrown open to release the Eye of Night.

Can twin siblings on opposite sides of the war protect the Shield and uncover the secret of the Gods of Earth, Sun, and Moon?