A modern day science student gets trapped in a world where nightmarish creatures threaten the population, and a vengeful tyrant wants her dead.
Rayna Powell is a student of science and fact. Rayna doesn't believe in magic...yet.
Thrown into an alternate world during a bizarre lightning storm, Rayna crosses a hellish, lightning-filled plain to emerge in a troubled land called Taren. Far from anyone she knows or loves, the people she meets either fear her as a goddess returned or curse her as an evil omen. Soon after arriving, she finds herself hunted by telepathically linked minions--servants of the bitter king Nephredom.
Nephredom alone maintains the "Gate", a Psi-magical barrier confining thousands of mutated beasts that were once men. However, the strain of keeping the Gate has pushed Nephredom to the edge of madness, and it 's only a matter of time before the Gate falls...
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This is the first book in the Taren trilogy.
Target market: I'm targeting science fiction and epic fantasy readers. This novel will also appeal to YA audiences.
Complete at 120,000 words. The first 7 chapters have been uploaded to Authonomy.
Cover art by Rich DiSilvio