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The Seekers: The Children of Darkness (Dystopian Sci-Fi - Book 1)

The Seekers: The Children of Darkness (Dystopian Sci-Fi - Book 1)

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<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>

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  <p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="center"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="3"><em>Elise has thus captured the essence in the most tribal affair of all poets. Evermore does she invoke a deep passion of ecstasy that is inside us all. Truly the decree of diversity is awakened from within its slumber longing to be embarked by immense affairs of human understanding. Evoking a subtle note of elixir to our lips and a perception made well aware in even the most simplest of creatures and thus to the highest intellect of any individual.</em></font></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="center"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="center"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="3"><em>Not only does Elise provide us with clear understanding but also provides us with something not found common in everyday poetry, STYLE! Elise has her own keen sense of what poetry was meant to be and she bears the mark of Mistress of Poetic and Lyrical Composition.</em></font></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="center"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="center"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="3"><em>She has indeed given us the burnished format in an intrinsic plan to self discovery. Thus the formulation of her work is the metempsychosis of classical poetry at its finest!</em></font></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="center"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="center"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="3"><em>Hail the Mistress of Magick and poetical composition! She is the Voice, Practice and Memory of the Ancients: Erato (Love Poetry), Euterpe (Lyric Poetry) and Polyhymnia (Sacred Poetry).</em></font></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="center"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="center"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="3"><em>Truly an Illumination of Bliss in a perception yet that cannot be defined by science or metaphysical evidence. She has become the fingerprint of poetic genius and I truly recommend her work to anyone and everyone who is thus into the realms of poetry and music.</em></font></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="center"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="center"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="3"><em>A must read! Believe me, your bookshelf is not complete without a copy of her works and I now leave you with one warning: You will not put it down once you begin!</em></font></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="center"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;" align="center"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="3"><em>It is a Reality!<br /><br />Author and Poet TC McKinney<br /><br /><br /><br />Elise's Opium Valentines intoxicates, addicting us to her passions, creating them ours. Cast in the classic, her Songs of Songs are uncannily Sapphoesue. No higher praise than that.<br /><br />Caught between Scylla and Charybdis, she unleashes on us her insatiable hunger for the untamed, unrelenting, unfathonable wilderness of human passions. Hers are nothing less than Aphrodite's dreams.<br /><br />Richard Vallance, Describe Adonis Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.</em></font></span></p>