The Darkness Comes, a Novel

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This is speculative fiction about good and evil.
Are we each born one way or the other? Do we have a choice?

In The DARKNESS COMES, the black dragon, Ziess-Falnoor, calls forth the Darkness which threatens the world. With this as the backdrop, the tale of two female human babies, Arlee and Sardia, along with the dragon youngling, Flame, unfolds.

Sardia, daughter to the cruel wizard King Bartok, born after Bartok took then murdered her mother, wears the Dragon's Mark bestowed upon her and her father by Ziess-Falnoor. A bright, beautiful child, Sardia is corrupted by her father. Princess Sardia, with help from her patron Ziess-Falnoor and the Book of Power, grows to become a powerful wizard tainted by her twisted thoughts.


Arlee, who also the Dragon's Mark, witnesses her mother's horrific death. While gathering berries, she is chased by night beasts to a cave where she is helped by a goddess. Arlee is befriended by the red dragon, Fyregon, who as a youngling was called Flame. She goes to North Mountain with Flame to live among dragons. The wizard, Halakar, bonded to the dragon, Denara, Fyregon's mother, takes Arlee to Stonekeep to train her in the Wizard Ways and teaches Arlee to use her Dragon Power.

As Arlee and Sardia mature, they master traveling the Paths of Life in the Beyond, forward and backward in time. Here the Great Battle of Wizards and Dragons takes place. To save the world, the rift made by Ziess-Falnoor must be mended and the Darkness destroyed. Come, join the Battle against the Darkness. Can destiny be changed or does the Darkness succeed?


Excerpts from
The DARKNESS COMES



The DARKNESS COMES
is the first book of three
of the Dragon's Mark series,
the second book is FYREGON
and the third book,
FOO WIZARD, is outlined.
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