Anathema Story
Statistics: 18 chapters; 139 pages; 44,904 words; 12p.Times font 1.5 spacing; finished Nov. 9, 2006
One man's journey to remember his past...
...and discover his future.
Can the foretold future be changed?
Anathema Story is told from the perspective of a young man without his memories. Awakening on a lonely beach and covered in blood, he must begin his journey to discover who he is and what happened to him. Along the way he finds old and new friends and enemies, all with motives of their own--and he must face the difficult journey of learning who to trust even when it seems impossible.
Chapter Index
Chapter One: Scarlet Memories
Chapter Two: The Nightingale Dream
Chapter Three: Golden Eyes
Chapter Four: Leviathan
Chapter Five: Only a Pawn
Chapter Six: The Captive Child
Chapter Seven: Secrets
Chapter Eight: The Condemned
Chapter Nine: Marius Vespus
Chapter Ten: Threads
Chapter Eleven: As the Pieces Move
Chapter Twelve: The Death Mask
Chapter Thirteen: Betrayed
Chapter Fourteen: Deeper and Deeper
Chapter Fifteen: Two Prophecies
Chapter Sixteen: The Rewriting of Destiny
Chapter Seventeen: Time Never Stands Still
Chapter Eighteen: The End and the Beginning
The Magic Kingdom
Statistics: 16 chapters; 130 pages; 41,538 words; 12p.Times font 1.5 spacing; finished July 3, 2007
A ruler who lusts after power will always fall... but he'll drag an entire nation down with him.
This tale tells how greed can destroy a nation from the inside out.
This is the tale of the Magic Kingdom.
The Magic Kingdom is a prequel to Anathema Story, taking place nearly a thousand years before. The Magic Kingdom is embroiled in a bitter civil war, between the faction still loyal to the king--the Loyalists--and the revolutionaries, or Firebrands. Shino Hamasaki is a Magician by blood and a Firebrand soldier, but his magic is weak, rendering him a societal outcast. He's wandered through life aimlessly, his only goal to keep near his adoptive father, the only man who ever cared for him--the Firebrand General Lloyd Avery. But the razing of Vallis by Loyalist soldiers will drive Shino away from everything he thought he knew and fling him into the center of the civil war to learn for himself what he fights for.
Chapter Index
Chapter One: The Razing of Vallis
Chapter Two: Into the Magic Kingdom
Chapter Three: Vigil Town
Chapter Four: The Wandering Bard
Chapter Five: The Calm Before the Storm
Chapter Six: Memorial Hall
Chapter Seven: The Coming of Ragnarök
Chapter Eight: Sins of the Fathers
Chapter Nine: Servo Nos
Chapter Ten: The Bandit City
Chapter Eleven: Lonely People
Chapter Twelve: The Beating of the Heart
Chapter Thirteen: Breaking Point
Chapter Fourteen: Where Angels Fear to Tread
Chapter Fifteen: Memoria
Chapter Sixteen: Kingdom of Glass
Magus Story (Working Title)
Status: Halted. As a direct sequel to Anathema Story, my realization that AS is nowhere near up to standard has made me seriously rethink working so hard on a sequel that requires AS. This will probably never be written, nor will its sequel idea, thus killing the Anathema series (that at one point was going to be a 4-book series).
The end of the gods has been set in motion...
Magus Story (working title) is the sequel to Anathema Story (all are to be read in order written, not chronological order). Four years have passed since the birth of the fledgling republic Eldevaal, and already times are changing some more. The first president has been voted out of office and the new one doesn't like Alexander. He can't kill a national hero, but he can send him away--and he ships him off to discover land to the east. But Alex and the others find a lot more than they bargained for. They don't just find land, they find a fallen empire. They find the ancient Kingdom of Magic.
Masks in Moonlight
Statistics: 27 chapters; 264 pages; 87,998 words; 12p.Times font 1.5 spacing; finished August 16, 2008; finished editing October 23, 2008. Writing by Elizabeth Chin; concept, storyline, and characters co-written with Carmen Miller
Romance. Adventure. Betrayal. Assassination. Tyranny. Oppression. One single flicker of Hope.
Enter a world of revolution and political intrigue. Enter a world of betrayal and corruption. Enter a world of lies and half-truths. Enter a world of masks.
Trace Duran, eldest child of a government family, or Dante, moonlight rebel working to overthrow the regime. As Trace he shows his face to the world, as Dante he veils it in shadow. One man, two identities. But which man is truly the mask?
Enter a world of greyness, a world of muddled right and wrong. Enter a world of a million nameless faces. Enter a world where no one is who he seems.
Enter the world of Masks in Moonlight.
Chapter Index
Chapter One: Dante
Chapter Two: Double Meaning
Chapter Three: The First Move
Chapter Four: Tavi
Chapter Five: Under Moonlight Flashes Steel
Chapter Six: The Sweet and the Bitter
Chapter Seven: Naming the Order
Chapter Eight: Rank and Rebellion
Chapter Nine: Konrad
Chapter Ten: The President's Daughter
Chapter Eleven: Balance of Power
Chapter Twelve: Thoughts and Words
Chapter Thirteen: On Toward the Past
Chapter Fourteen: Battle Plan
Chapter Fifteen: Rites and Riddles
Chapter Sixteen: Edelweiss
Chapter Seventeen: Unforgivable
Chapter Eighteen: The Eye of the Cross
Chapter Nineteen: Retribution
Chapter Twenty: Letting Go
Chapter Twenty-One: Undercurrents
Chapter Twenty-Two: Rallying the Troops
Chapter Twenty-Three: Factions and Familiar Faces
Chapter Twenty-Four: Coming Clean
Chapter Twenty-Five: Aarboridge Alight
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Red-Stained Streets
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Beneath the Brilliant Moon
Child of Fire
Status: Halted for the duration of writing Detritus
As a man runs from a past he is inalterably bound to, fate wills his world collide with a boy whose own is turning upside down and inside out by tragedies and secrets he never suspected. A man who's spent his whole life running has to be the anchor to keep a boy from falling off the deep end. While the boy mourns the loss of his father, the man still mourns the loss of the boy he once was.
Grey tried to leave the past behind, all the people, including himself, all his mistakes, including the identity he had forged for himself. Right on the heels of 16-year-old Nathan's father's death, a mysterious man with a fake name--Grey--appears at his mother's door to tell Nathan that his father held a deep, dark secret: he was one of only two survivors of the ancient Clan Renuel, and now so is Nathan. And unfortunately, the men--or more specifically man--who destroyed Clan Renuel, the Heir of House Tierney, Emanuel, knows about Nathan, and will stop at nothing to stomp Clan Renuel out once and for all.
Detritus
Status: In progress
Hundreds of years ago, the human kingdoms Minoria and Rossam joined forces to destroy the dragon empire of Draconis, sparking the Great Dragon War. Men and dragons alike fought valiantly, and some of each race had their stories spread so far and wide as to eventually become legends; but alas, all wars, all stories, must end, and the age of the dragons came to an abrupt stop under the mighty hand of the Dragon-Slayer of Baptiste. Humans had won the war at last; dragons would never again walk the fair lands of Ieladrith.
Or so they thought.
A few dragons survived, took on human forms, and intermarried with the humans. For generations, no one knew. Until the dragon blood became diluted enough that the tainted men--known as dragon-bloodeds--could no longer hide the physical mutations that marked their ancestry. Men called them traitors for circumstances they could not control. Dragon-blooded children were abandoned and killed. Then came the rule of Reynard Minoria IV, who took the dragon-blooded children to the castle and raised them to be mighty knights. In this environment grew Laik Verdier, Knight of the Argenté Brigade. He swore an oath of loyalty to the King, the King who saved his life when his mother abandoned him. Without his loyalty to his liege, without that oath, his life has no meaning.
So when the mere memory of a woman who had loved him and the battle of human and dragon bloods inside him scream at him treachery, the always-loyal knight must choose between his love and conscience and his life and oath.
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