The time: perhaps eight hundred years after a cataclysmic interruption of the earth's rotation; a cosmic stumble that came near to wiping man and all of his doings from the face of the earth. The near-savage, sword-wielding descendants of the few survivors of that conflagration now inhabit a land that is clean, primal and beautiful, beautiful, except for one vast and mysterious tract known to all people of the world as the DARKRANGE. None may enter the Darkrange, for legend speaks of it as a place of the beforeones; the very domain of the devil himself. Now, while on a seasonal herb-gathering, a Doctor-woman has been stolen, and Odd, the premier battleman of the Ussen people of Shadowhill-grange, is selected to fetch her back. The trail of her abductors leads into the Darkrange. Odd follows, for he lives in an age of courage and honor, and can do no less. There, beyond the forbidden fringes and within the unworldly, moss-hung depths of the Darkrange, he learns the truth of the world, his people and begins to fathom his own terrible legacy.
About the Author
Mr. Hawkins spent twenty-two years as a member of the United States Navy, served with distinction during the Vietnam era and, of course, experienced the civic unrest that accompanied those times.
During his lifetime he has seen much of the world, gotten to know a great many of it's people, and has experienced a diversity of cultures. He has fought in the prize ring, attained recognition as a martial artist, and found time to earn a degree in Law.
Mr. Hawkins now resides in Mobile, Alabama with his wife, Coe, where in addition to his writing, he works in the Shipbuilding industry.
Other books by Mr. Hawkins, besides Darkrange are The Avalonians, PROPHET-SEED and Scarab-4.
