Darkness surrounds us on all sides, confusion creeps on our doorstep, and it feels like it’s a lost cause. We feel like we are the lost cause, and are simply a burden to bear. However, these ideas are just lies, but they can be easy to believe when one turns to the news and sees hopelessness for the hundredth time. It feels easier to give up than pick yourself up off the floor and fight.
The Halcyon Epics is a tale about people learning to get off the floor, pick up a sword, find strength in Someone beyond themselves, and learning how to fight.
The ultimate rebellion is not letting the pain win.
Darkness and loneliness want attention so badly, so what if there was a story about exposing their already dying demise?
This series is about learning that strength is not our own. Finding companionship, friendship, and love, when loneliness tells you that will never happen. Learning to fight for truth in a world that seems to have lost its way. Ultimately, finding hope when there only seems to be darkness.
Join Emma, Liam and their friends in this four-book epic fantasy series as they must confront the ghosts that haunt their pasts, the darkness that creeps closer to their present, and the bloodshed that may define their future, as they learn what strength means, how friendship is found, and the price of truth in the end.
This fantasy series is aimed for teenagers who wish to read a Biblically-inspired fantasy series. You will NEVER have to worry about content that may make you nervous. The Halcyon Epics will always be 100% clean.
- There will never be explicit sex scenes.
- There will never be cursing.
- There will never be gory violence.
First and foremost I believe Jesus came to earth as the son of God, lived a perfect life, died on the cross, and rose on the third day to save us from our sins. I will always teach the Gospel of grace: that salvation comes through repentance of sins and acceptance of Christs free gift of salvation. Secondly, I believe the Bible is the infallible - without flaw - Word of God, lived and breath by God to be the guide in which all Christians should live. I believe the Bible is a living book that still has the power to change lives. All scripture references inside The Halcyon Epics will come from the ESV or the English Standard Version - this translation was chosen for comprehensive and reliability reasons.
She was told never to ask questions, but what about when murder is involved?
Emma Ambrose has lived a life of privilege and safety inside her father's arms ever since her mother mysteriously disappeared when she was a girl, leaving Emma bereft and lonely.
That is before he is dragged away on accounts for murder and treason. Out of loyalty, Emma tries to follow her father's final instructions: never leave home and never ask questions. Until she receives a letter from the powerful and intimidating - she might add - Clan Leader Summer Eyes, who forcibly demands Emma must come at once to pay back her father's debts. Torn but left without a choice, Emma agrees to the terms. Frightened but determined, Emma makes her way to Cupala, the Capital. She is confronted with threats much more extensive than she has imagined: from political games to starvation tactics. Emma scrambles to understand the world around her with only help from a stuck-up guard.
Even amongst the turmoil, she feels the bliss of freedom for the first time in her life, and she begins to question who is the real enemy, the influential dignitaries playing their dangerous games - or her father?
Darkness crouches at her door, but she doesn’t know how to find the light…
In this thrilling second installment to the Halcyon Epic series, Emma faces personal and global threats as the Rusalka creep off the mountain one bloody massacre at a time. She is recruited to travel across the country with a band of Gypsies to enlist a grumpy old Magi who wants nothing to do with the brewing hostilities up North. Emma is faced with devastation beyond her imagination as refugees flee from the mountains to escape the encroaching violence. Left without title or honor, Emma is listless as she must confront demons, past and present, in ways she never imagined and conflicts she wants nothing to do with. However, intrigue, dark magic, and a Rusalkan traitor may be just enough to kick her into a fight against the darkness of the Rusalkan god she never saw coming.