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J.P. Moore (Author)

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Product Description

Dure is a city where dreams die, a dark and gritty mining settlement under the heel of the imperial Talarian League. The city walls draw a prison of fog on coastal cliffs around Elysa Ustanon, a prostitute who learns that she is the first of three prophesied Dreamers who will shatter the illusion of reality.

Sea storms bring Rourke Artomey, a famed investigator and man of science running from his own illusions. Rourke works to end a rash of abductions that have plagued Dure but quickly finds himself staring down Elysa's strange powers. Elysa and Rourke are soon caught within a web of political and religious intrigue. Regional governors vie for the imperial throne. Merchants and burghers scheme, balancing conquered and rogue nations within a plot to control the trade of the known world. Religious schools compete to inherit a post-apocalyptic afterworld. All the while, a secret order of knights, keepers and shapers of the realm's hidden history, works to insure that truth and magic are neither sold to the highest bidder nor stolen.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 456 KB
• Print Length: 259 pages
• Publisher: Double Dragon eBooks (November 19, 2007)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00107M4MY
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #634,718 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

J. P. Moore writes in southern New Jersey, which is a long way from the settings of his novels and stories. He has fond memories of a childhood in the Pine Barrens, however, where endless tracks of mossy wilderness informed the spirit behind his fiction.

Whether in worlds of his own design, or slightly off-center historical settings, Moore digs for the streams of mythology and folklore that run beneath day-to-day life. Pulling them forth, Moore makes prime motivations and manifest realities of these undercurrents. He finds his characters as bystanders and transforms them into heroes and heroines as they face horrific enemies.

Perhaps no surprise, J. P. Moore is a student of speculative history. His library card unlocks a Best of the Best parade of works on King Arthur, the Knights Templar, Gnosticism and countless other mysteries from ancient and medieval history. His browser's bookmarks lead to a mess of conspiracy theories that, in conglomeration, present a truly frightening world.

Just the right kind of world for his characters, however--Moore's settings are on the brink. Their histories are lost, or misunderstood. Their futures are uncertain.

All of the heroes are gone.

Only the unlikely heroes are left.