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Daniel learns what it means to be the Creator’s Chosen Vessel. Queen Cleona has a deadly disease for which there is no cure, Serin Gell has escaped, and spies infest the royal court. The Serpent Guild is reorganizing with two Accomplisheds vying for the coveted position of Maestro and the Ducaunan mountaineer gets caught up in the machinations of one while his friends get tangled up with the other. For a thousand years the Trumpet of Tarin Conn has been hidden away by the Ducaunan Royal family, now Duke Cantor of house Ducalin sends word that his estate is under assault by members of the ...

Find Bible-based ways of living godly. Understand sin and how to avoid it. Learn to prevail over temptation. Understand the importance of letting you light shine. Come to understand that we live in a material construct within a greater spiritual reality. Discover the most powerful force in the universe. Fighting Temptation – The Bible-Study Version, has all of the scriptural references listed at the end of each chapter for the convenience of reader.

Wanderers: People who, when the air is sufficiently ionized, possess the ability to teleport to any place they can picture in their minds.Twelve year old Michael Storm is caught up in a desperate search for his missing grandmother, who happens to be a Tae Kwon Do master and his teacher in the marshal art. Jenny Fontain’s grandfather is also missing and the two young and inexperienced wanderers team up, going from world to world, encountering hostile people, and dangerous creatures. Even if they find their grandparents, can they save them?

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches about attitudes toward prayer, charitable deeds, and our relationship to God and our fellow human beings. How do I live a life that is pleasing to Jesus? Where should I begin my study of the bible? I have been asked the questions many times by new converts to Christ. While there are many good places to begin such a study, the place I always suggest is Matthew; chapters, five, six, and seven. This is because we can learn directly from our Lord and Savior how He expects His followers to conduct themselves. The study is also a good reminder for people ...

“In time you must become the symbol of house Benhannon and let it soar over the houses of potentates,” Silvia the Seer had been telling Daniel Benhannon often over the last few years and most recently about forty minutes prior to him taking to the air in the form of a giant falcon. He is given less than twenty-four hours to meet the demand or the coming storm she predicted would escalate into a full-scale war. Up until appearing in the sky over the city of Kyran, Daniel had only flown over the house of one potentate; the emperor of Zeutha. The Devine Imperative specified plural: houses ...

This is the story of Bill Hayes, a young man with a serious problem called telekinesis. He can control his psionic power well enough while awake; when he sleeps is a different matter. His problem has driven him away from his family and friends. He never met anyone else possessing the power he wielded, until encountering one who can and has killed with little more than a thought. Bill’s journey takes him from being a loner roaming the highways of southern Georgia to an entirely different dimension. He enters a realm where people with psionic gifts rule and dinosaurs have not gone extinct. ...

Daniel Benhannon, Maestro of the Atlantan Guild, has determined Rex Badger needs to be removed from his position. The Chief Conductor and Master Musician in the College of Musicians in New Aresia can no longer be allowed to infest the world with his schemes. The Badger recreated the fallen Serpent Guild within the college and enjoys the ignorant backing of the Zeuthan Empire. The entire infestation must be eradicated. Daniel’s plans are interrupted by the Swirling of Events, an Imperative he could not ignore. Ruth the Seer warns, “The offspring of Poseidon shall make his choice; pray ...

The champion of evil has been defeated and yet Daniel’s role as the Chosen Vessel only becomes more complicated. The Swirling of Events has inverted, forcing him to go where he needs to be, rather than having those things being drawn to him. He is not given the luxury of knowing where he needs to go or what ought to be done upon arrival, only that it is critical the chore be done or the victory he achieved will be for nothing. According to the Teki Seer, Silvia, knowledge of the Trident is not only crucial to his success, death will take him in a matter of months if he fails to learn, and...

Daniel Benhannon has finished building his cabin near the peak of Mount Tannakonna and is ready to leave home and invite Val Terrance to be his wife. But the simple life he hopes for is changed forever when he inadvertently casts a spell so powerful it draws the attention of the Grand Maestro of Aakadon and the dark Maestro Tarin Conn. The two powerful foes sense a change in the balance of power and both of them intend for it to be in their favor. Daniel wants nothing to do with either faction but must learn to master his newly discovered potential before the forces sent looking for him ...

Daniel Benhannon, a young mountaineer, recently raised to six bolt Accomplished, wants to be left alone to live out his life as he chooses. The casting of his first spell has placed him square in the middle of an ancient battle between the seven Guilds of Aakadon, led by Grand Maestro, Efferin Tames, and the Serpent Guild, led by Maestro Balen Tamm. To accomplish his goal, Daniel must break his link to the mind of the evil Tarin Conn, the Dark Maestro, imprisoned beneath Mount Kelgotha. To break the link, he must go to Aakadon, keep secret his standing as a six bolt Accomplished, a ...

When Jubal’s friend Roddy plays a new tune on his flute, the lives of the two Nephilim are changed forever when the Melody causes them to glow and float up into the air. One becomes the first Aakasear (Melody-composer) and the other the first Aakacarn. Jubal is given three tasks; teach his fellow Aakacarns (Melody-wielders) how to summon and focus their life-force energies, and to point the way. The divine imperative is for mankind to go and fill the earth and he must do everything he can to see that the directive is carried out. Roddy’s desire is to be ruler of all mankind, which is ...

At eight winter’s-old Alisiin Garow’s isolated life begins to change after the Spell Surges from the Battle of Polen Tare reach the Village of the Border People. She is the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter and the Clairvoyan Nebba declares her Eppadoon, an agent of change. Alisiin is fated to face death at a young age with a glimmer of hope if she can rise above. If she dies, what was lost cannot be found, the falcon may not soar, and the nations will mourn. The weight of the world will be borne on the shoulders of a tiny girl.The victory at Polen Tare creates nearly as many ...

Daniel’s success in the Foot Hills of Pentrosa makes his restored ability to summon Potential known to his enemies. Queen Cleona has declared a state of emergency and has ordered all legions to prepare for war, including the requirement for all nobles to summon their personal muster of troops. Harmonic waves emanating from the Dark Maestro causes wide spread panic, the entire world fears he is about to break free from his entombment beneath Mount Kelgotha, and pressure is brought on Grand Maestro Efferin Tames to stop Tarin Conn from escaping. Vance Cummin reveals Daniel’s deepest ...

The fledgling Atlantan Guild is facing retaliatory strikes from the Serpent Guild and is declared an illegitimate society by the Grand Maestro of Aakadon. Tarin Conn rises from his mountain tomb and only the shield placed on his potential keeps him from unleashing all of his might. Political tensions increase and armies are on the march as kingdoms take advantage of civil unrest and use security as a pretext for seizing territory from their neighbors. Daniel has been weakened from the castings at Shantear. He must rely on his ability to innovate and the dedication of his associates in order...