Ari's Moral Dilemma: Aquaman 2 or Medellin?

When an eleven-year-old prince sets out on a journey to find the assassin who murdered his father five years ago, does he have only revenge in his heart, or does he seek understanding, which may lead to sympathy, forgiveness, and even love? The answer lies in...The Orphan Prince.

Prince Ari has vowed revenge after his father King Idan was killed by the legendary swordsman from an enemy empire named Black Wolf. But then, on the night of his eleventh birthday, Black Wolf, dark, handsome and self-assured, brazenly walks into the castle that bears King Idan’s name and delivers two birthday gifts to Ari—his father’s sword, and a gold medal that Black Wolf won in his youth for sword dueling. Confused by conflicting emotions and divided loyalties in his heart, Ari embarks on a journey into the empire of Narsus to find Black Wolf, only to encounter dangers that threaten to within inches of his life. Fortunately, his former sworn enemy rescues him in the nick of time.

It is then that Ari finally hears the complete story of his past, of King Idan and Black Wolf, of lust for conquest and heroism against conscience, only it is a story within a far bigger story, told by a mysterious boy who is not what he appears to be. The world once possessed advanced technology beyond imagination, but humanity’s penchant for violence, aggression and war brought itself to the brink of extinction. And now, even though no vestige of that ancient technology remains, the darkness in the human heart persists. It was against this darkness that Black Wolf raised his sword and committed murder. As fate would have it, after Ari returns to the Idan Castle, he is confronted by the same moral dilemma that Black Wolf faced years ago, and the decision he makes will profoundly affect the lives of countless humans.

The Secret Ingredient In Chowdah Is People!

When a wave of terrorist attacks devastates the country, fourteen-year-old Matthew Trask and his younger brother, Craig, find themselves all alone in a small southern Maine town.

With their parent’s dead or missing and their food supply almost gone, the boys must make a difficult decision. Before starving looters and murderers break into their home in search of food, they join some neighborhood friends and plan an escape to a secluded hunting camp deep in the Maine woods. But the hundred-mile journey is fraught with danger and as the teens struggle to survive against both man and nature, a hidden secret may cause one of them to pay the ultimate price for the group’s survival.

Happy C Day

Happy Columbus Day- for all of you working today (including me) here is a query- enjoy!

This story is set in contemporary Scotland, around Deeside, in an isolated landscape where events can unfold in a vacuum, without ever being seen.

A middle-aged man loses nearly everything when his business collapses. The bank is threatening to re-possess his home and throw his family out onto the streets. Under extreme duress from his creditors he hatches a plan to kidnap a wealthy female entrepreneur who owns a country estate near to where he lives. With the proceeds of the ransom he intends to save his wife and son from penury and the resulting humiliation. The plan goes wrong and a companion of the lady is killed, perhaps murdered. The lady is kidnapped and imprisoned in a remote, ruined cottage. In a moment of madness she is subjected to an horrific assault by the man, an act which traumatises both of them. A short time later the man is offered a way out of his predicament.

The man abandons his hostage to her fate and goes on to establish a new and successful career working for a quasi-government business development agency. He suffers no retribution for his crimes, nor is he repentant. He believes, or at least hopes, that perhaps the circumstances justified his actions.

Pretty Crappy Journal

"The nights are endless in this constant war…"

Thus begins the first entry in a journal from a war that never happened, from a time of which it is Scarlet Order heresy even to speak. For Kavin and Niffin, a young scullion and an apprentice scribe, orphans in the Jade Palace of the Empire of the Blood, the journal opens a door into times long forgotten, times when creatures of myth and powerful beings now but tale and rumor walked the lands undisguised. Lucin Skyr, son of a peasant from the east, arrives in the Imperial capital of New Dawn for the brutal Bloodguard training, hoping to be the First, Oathbound to protect those that rule.