Description
<p><strong><em>A tragic warrior lost in two worlds... Which one will he choose?</em></strong></p><p>The war in Iraq ended for Freddie when an IED explosion left his mind and body shattered. Once a skilled gamer as well as a capable soldier, he's now a broken warrior, emerging from a medically induced coma to discover he's inhabiting two separate realities.</p><p>The first is his waking world of pain, family trials, and remorse—and slow rehabilitation through the tender care of Becky, his physical therapist. The second is a dark fantasy realm of quests, demons, and magic, which Freddie enters when he sleeps. The lines soon blur for Freddie, not just caught between two worlds, but lost within himself.</p><p>Is he Lieutenant Freddie Williams, a leader of men, a proud officer in the US Army who has suffered such egregious injury and loss? Or is he Frederick, Prince of Stormwind, who must make sense of his horrific visions in order to save his embattled kingdom from the monstrous Horde, his only solace the beautiful gardener, Rebecca, whose gentle words calm the storms in his soul.</p><p>In the conscious world, the severely wounded vet faces a strangely similar and equally perilous mission to that of the prince—a journey along a dark road, haunted by demons of guilt and memory. Can he let patient, loving Becky into his damaged and shuttered heart? It may be his only way back from Hell.</p>
Story Behind The Book
As an only child of a charming and charismatic couple, I saw their struggles within their marriage starting from my own young age. As I grew up around them, they both in their own manner drew me into their marriage turmoil, often trying to get me to take sides. While this didn't work, it nevertheless caused me to wonder more about just who they were. I couldn't figure them out and when I left home for college I vowed that I would only return for sporadic visits. Their dynamics were too hard for me to grasp and it took me many years to come to love them again in a way that a child would want to love and remember her parents. The turning points for me in understanding the depths of love were when I saw each of them die. And in both cases they had lapsed into a coma and I had to decide to terminate life support. This book is the best way I know how to bring them somehow back to life-for me, and for those who loved them, too.
