The Seekers: The Children of Darkness (Dystopian Sci-Fi - Book 1)
Description
<p>New from the author of the multiple award-winning fantasy saga, <em>The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky</em>, winner of the <strong>Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Fall 2014 - Best Book in the Category of FANTASY</strong>....</p><h1><strong><em>The Children of Darkness</em> by David Litwack</strong></h1><p>Evolved Publishing presents the first book in the new dystopian series <em>The Seekers</em>. [DRM-Free]</p><h2><strong>[Dystopian, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Religion]</strong></h2><p><em>“But what are we without dreams?”</em></p><p>A thousand years ago the Darkness came—a terrible time of violence, fear, and social collapse when technology ran rampant. But the vicars of the Temple of Light brought peace, ushering in an era of blessed simplicity. For ten centuries they have kept the madness at bay with “temple magic,” and by eliminating forever the rush of progress that nearly caused the destruction of everything.</p><p>Childhood friends, Orah and Nathaniel, have always lived in the tiny village of Little Pond, longing for more from life but unwilling to challenge the rigid status quo. When their friend Thomas returns from the Temple after his “teaching”—the secret coming-of-age ritual that binds young men and women eternally to the Light—they barely recognize the broken and brooding young man the boy has become. Then when Orah is summoned as well, Nathaniel follows in a foolhardy attempt to save her.</p><p>In the prisons of Temple City, they discover a terrible secret that launches the three on a journey to find the forbidden keep, placing their lives in jeopardy, for a truth from the past awaits that threatens the foundation of the Temple. If they reveal that truth, they might once again release the potential of their people.</p><p>Yet they would also incur the Temple’s wrath as it is written: “If there comes among you a prophet saying, ‘Let us return to the darkness,’ you shall stone him, because he has sought to thrust you away from the Light.”</p><p><strong>Be sure to read the second book in this series, <em>The Stuff of Stars</em>, due to release November 30, 2015. And don't miss David's award-winning speculative saga, <em>The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky</em></strong></p>
Story Behind The Book
As a double victim of Balkan Genocide, in 1942 in the village of Vojnic, Croatia where my father was born, Croatian Nazis and their Nazi Catholic priests gathered 97 Serbs in the Serbian Orthodox church on the pretext that they would be converted to Catholicism and their lives would be spared. The doors were lock from the outside and the church was burned to the ground. Seventeen of those victims were my relatives.
On a trip to Croatia in the 1980s I photographed the ruins of that church where Marshall Tito had placed a memorial plaque to its victims. In 1995, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman had the site bulldozed along with the Jasenovac Concentration Camp, known by historians as "The Auschwitz of the Balkans" where 700,000 Serbs 60,000 Jews and 70,000 Roma Gypsies were put to death. A separate wing of the Concentration Camp was run by Catholic nuns who liquidated 90,000 Serbian children under the age of ten with poison to save bullets. 740 criminal Catholic priests escaped Croatia in 1945 through the "Vatican Ratline" for Argentina. Ante Pavelich, the Nazi president of Croatia also fled through the Vatican Ratline and became the "Security Advisor" to Juan Peron who issued 34,000 visas to Croatian war criminals... none were ever brought to justice.
During "Operation Storm" in 1995 when 250,000 Serbs were "ethnically cleansed" from Croatia, the last 5 relatives of my name were too old and too sick to flee ... one month later the Red Cross notified me that they were found with their throats slit.
This book is a collection of my published article and letters over a 10 year period, a way of memorializing my family and relatives and documentation against those who perpetrated a second Genocide in Croatia of 40,000 Serbians in 1991.
