Daektoch, mage of the Black Arts, suffers no competition. What he can’t posses, he destroys. He views the Elves’ dormant magic as a threat. Using hordes of Trolls, he’ll annihilate them! When Jerhad the Elf agrees to run an errand for a Druid posing as an old man, he has no idea of how Destiny is about to change his life. He’s barely underway when Gnomes make an attempt on the parcel he carries. Suddenly, his magic awakens, and he escapes. However, he finds himself off course. Along with Stanton, a soldier, he flees trappers that attempt to rob and kill them. Survivor of a Troll raid, Andreanna falls in love with the "Elf Boy". She entertains herself by making her “Elf Prince” blush and by teasing "Squad Leader Stanton". Dark wraiths kidnap Andreanna, Jerhad is lost in a dream world, and the Druid battles Daektoch. Accompanied by Giants, the Dwarf Army mobilizes. The races lie in peril, but the Captain of the ghost ship has a plan! Perhaps Fate will intervene.
A thirty-five year resident and native of Northern Maine's "French Country", David was a jack-of-all-trades for many years. He received a B.S. in Biology in 1979 and a B.S. in Nursing in 1989 from the University of Maine at Fort Kent. After ten years of nursing, he received a Doctorate of Chiropractic from Life University in Atlanta in 1999, when he also married Eileen his lovely wife in Key West, Florida.
They then moved to coastal Oregon where they now have a chiropractic practice and a family of five dogs and three cats. Having dabbled at writing in college, David never suspected that he had a four- volume fantasy series lying within him. He has been a devoted fan of the fantasy genre and gives credit to the two chief influences of his writing (no plagiarism intended) J.R.R. Tolkien and Terry Brooks.
I began writing after being viciously assaulted by a muse. She said to me, "Dave, you know what you should do? You should write a book.
Well, I was still working ER as a nurse, establishing a chiropractic business and remodeling the house to meet the bank loan's deadlines. I had a choice finger expression for her. But when I went on break that night, I wondered, "If I did write a book, what would I write about?" The story began unfolding before me. I grabbed a pen and paper and started writing. $400,000 words later, I was done.
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