Book 1 of “Shadows Cast” Series Completed…
This post is a couple of weeks overdue, but I might as well get it up on here anyway — Book 1 of the Shadows Cast Series has been completed.
SYNOPSIS: Fhala-Nyda Unica Laeke Rees couldn’t remember a time when she wasn’t at war. A child of the Reformation of the planet Ghalua by its sister planet Kandur, the native of Ghalua found herself at the center of the Resistance at a young age. After failing to break her hero out of prison, she was incarcerated on Kandur as a psychopathic criminal under the care of Tor Jukinan, a Kanduraa philosopher and scientist of the Reformation. Years later the war has ended but once again conflict looms on the horizon, and Rees is forced to work with her old enemy Jukinan in order to save millions of lives from plunging into the darkness of another race-based campaign. As the appointed War Scholar of her new world Aradonya, a satellite of the distant gaseous planet Ladis, can Rees save millions of inhabitants from a senseless war of hate—all the while securing peace and absolution for herself, at long last?
Note that this is the rough draft; at this point I have edited 3 1/2 of the 15 total chapters, and don’t expect to complete the first edit until mid-August (since I will be away for three weeks at the NKS Summer School in Burlington, VT).
I’ve been working on the Shadows Cast concept for four years, and the bulk of the first book was written since October 2009.
I also have about 1/2 of Book 2 of the Shadows Cast Series completed.
And now, a poem in Kanduraa (the original language of the series) to tide you over:
ADIM ELORIATIS ZA (ONLY ON SUCH A MORNING)
Adim eloriatis za apea
tralina ridesian antenasi;
adim ayn u’arei jaire retainki
esia, en ko, piya kedra, teri’are.
Only on such a morning could I
breathe with shuddering gasps;
only when the rain pounds on my
chest, or you, sweet lover, lie on it.
