Of Atlantis is an epic fantasy novel based on the King of Atlantis, Archimedes. He was blessed with a source of untapped power. His mother, Cheris, knows the truth, but his father, King Lionus does not. His father is very fearful of the young prince. In this first book of a five column series, we follow Archimedes from his childhood, until he is crowned king, marries and has children of his own. The continent of Atlantis is made of different countries, and five Kings. There is political turmoil much like today. War is always a threat. We observe day to day life in Atlantis, before the devastating day the ocean swallowed the continent. One man would be proven to be an arch enemy. He knew the truth of Archimedes' powers. The two survive the devastation. Both possess eternal life. Uric chases Archimedes throughout history. Above all, Archimedes was proud, he was regal, and he was Of Atlantis.
Lanaia Lee was born in 1957 to a Navy father and a school teacher mother who home-schooled her. When she was nine years old, her mother died from a massive stroke. Because her father was rarely home, her grandmother, a professed black witch, gained custody. When Lanaia was 14, her grandmother abandoned her, and she landed in foster care where she had four sets of foster parents within a year.
At age fifteen, she went to boarding school on her dad's GI Bill. She graduated in her junior year after which she drifted, living with various people but without a family or a home. At eighteen, she married, suffered three miscarriages and divorced. By nineteen, she began working in management for convenient stores and restaurant chains.
She remarried at age 30 and had a stillborn daughter the following year. Five years later, her husband left her for a seventeen-year-old. She filed bankruptcy, and one month later suffered a massive stroke, after which she spent seven months in the hospital and remains in a wheelchair today.
For the next two years, she underwent intensive physical therapy, but she would never walk again. She found work at a vocational trade school to help with her rehabilitation and met her soul mate, David, also in a wheelchair from injuries he sustained in a motorcycle wreck 1984 while serving in the miliary. They have been married since 1992. They, too, lost two children due to her disease, erratic hypertension. She and her husband live independently, and she still drives.
In 2001, David dared her to write a poem. Out of curiosity, she posted it on an
online poetry forum. The feedback was so positive, she kept writing. At first, she wrote just poems, then short stories and finally novels. All of her work is typed with one hand because of her disabilities.
Lanaia gives credit to God's grace, which she believes has helped her overcome immense adversity, and she claims she won't quit until she hits the bestseller list.
