All other stories will NOT be a Christmas theme.)

(‘Away in the Manger’ is the first story in this series, based on Christmas, to be re-released from Etopia late fall, 2020. – Second in the Poplar Ridge Ranch series. – fourth in the “Chronicles of Anrodnes” series. – The story of a man taken prisoner by the Mer, living on a deserted island in their domain. I jump around from book to book as the mood takes me and I can make great strides on one and have to leave another completely for a while.Ĭurrently working mostly on “Atone”. Feel free to send comments to me (just click on my Contact link) on what you like to read about. Tal will be his again.I will post a list here of stories I am currently working on and gradually add descriptions of what they are about. He is determined to find Tal and set things right, no matter the distance and no matter the cost. Ramidine is not a man to be stolen from, and certainly not someone so precious as Tal. Ramidine soon learns of a twisted cover-up and a betrayal so dark it threatens not only the future peace but the very man he loves. But when he returns from a desperate victory to Tal, the wounded warrior he was forced to leave behind, he discovers that Tal has fled the capital. Ramidine Swal is known as The Golden General, feared, revered, and the right-hand man to the prince. Now Tal struggles to find a new purpose as the traumatic events in his past demand the most brutal of sacrifices… Worst of all, the priceless sword Ramidine once gifted to Tal is gone. He can no longer stay in the capital after High General Ramidine Swal, the man who once claimed him, never shows up after Tal is wounded. Now labeled a “cripple” and cast out from the warrior life he’s known for so long, he has no choice but to return to his past, a place of horror and guilt. Then Tal loses everything in a haze of pain and betrayal after his hand is severed in battle. Once, Tal Oryan was an elite warrior, fighting for the kingdom at the side of the powerful general who loved him.

Tal finally had it all…until the man he loved abandoned him.

Wings by jc owens