Sean DeWill spends his days working at his uncle’s store and living in Mesa City. Each day more boring than the next, in spite of the discovery of his ability to see visions in his water basin, and his heightened sense of sight and hearing.
The most ominous of his hidden abilities was his foreshadowing dreams. Fearing he would be treated different, Sean hides these talents from his friends. However, his boring life changed the day his uncle sent him by airship to deliver a package to a client.
He never suspected the doldrum of his world would give way until he found himself lost in a forest and falling in love with a beautiful girl.
His life couldn’t have been more different—or better. That is until the first assassin came for him. Unprepared, he would have been killed if not for SeeOna Falla, an attractive female Shallifin warrior.
Caught in the complications of this life, Sean comes to terms with the fact that if he wants to live, he needs to find out who he really is.
Sean DeWill never knew his father and mother, but after arriving in the isolated city of Carmarthen he has learned his mother was a Shallifin—an ancient race that warred with the Humans. After the war the Shallifin Mana’s used their great magic to hide their lands from the Human World, and for four hundred years they disappeared from the Humans. With Sean’s heritage comes inherited powers that if left uncontrolled could drive Sean mad.
SeeOna Falla, a beautiful female Shallifin warrior, has been assigned to watch over Sean. She found her hands full as she protected Sean from assassins.
Her assignment was given by the leader of the Shallifin, Mana Adia Falla, the most powerful of all the Shallifin Clan Manas. However, as he continues his search for the truth of his birth, Sean finds that problems in life get worse. Mana Authora, the Mana of the PexTel and bitter enemy of Adia, has vowed to use her power of the Dark Waters to send a demon to kill SeeOna—whose life is forever entwined with Sean’s.
Morgan Blackwell thought he had saved Sean DeWill, the bright hope for their secret band, when he sent Sean to safety on the infamous Captain Adair’s airship, the Air Falcon. However, fate has her way of dropping new problems onto those she favors. Arriving at the Covenant’s base, Blackwell learns the Air Falcon and Sean are missing and a raiding party is approaching. Unfortunately, this isn’t his only problem.
Sean’s uncle, a renegade Shallifin, intends to launch a plot that will start a war between the Humans and the Shallifin—a war that can only end in the annihilation of one of the races.
Blackwell must stop the renegade before he puts his plan into motion, but all he has are the Covenant’s few soldiers and Vastel, an alluring Shallifin warrior. What he needs is Adair’s missing airship and an army big enough to assault the most powerful Shallifin fortress and the home of Mana Adia, Sean’s grandmother.
Private Landen Sampson found himself in a unique situation. His first assignment in the Army was to guard a female engineer while on patrol in the Dead Zone, the No Man’s land between the civilized cities in the south and the Slave Army in the north. The Slaves were controlled by an alien creature that attached itself to their bodies.
But when Landen’s patrol is attacked by the Slaves, he becomes pinned down with his engineer seriously wounded and all the others in the patrol killed. If he is going to live and save the engineer’s life,he needs to somehow kill the ambushers and do so quickly.
ZetaNine, a captured Slave, awakens in a cell with no recollection of who she is, her past or what lies beyond the steel prison doors. Worse, she doesn’t understand the odd language of her keepers. The slave in her head is either dead or dormant. What she does realize is that she could kill her captors with her bare hands, but what good would that do? However, she does remember one thing, and that holds her one key to freedom—the kind face. She needs to somehow communicate to her captors that she needs to meet with the kind face.
ZetaNine was in love with Landen Sampson and living with his family. Her life was wonderful, no doctors or prison walls. She had been informed that the alien in her head was dead. Her life was happy, until she was gassed and kidnaped, only to awaken in a dark room, strapped inside a glass cage filled with a painful gas. And worse, the terrible face of Jianyu Erchitu demanding she be tortured until she reveals all her knowledge of the Slaves on the other side of the Wall.
Nevertheless, after being left for dead, she miraculously escapes and finds herself alone in the bustle of Brada City, miles away from Landen and his family.
ZetaNine has a choice to make, try to contact Landen and his family, only to expose them to her danger, and risk that the Army will return her to prison, or follow her inner compulsion brought on by a newly revived alien that is now alive inside her head. The stakes are high, if she follows the prompting of the alien, she could very well enslave everyone in the south.
ZetaNine is the best kept secret of the Army’s Wall Security Forces. Her partnership with Yao Sugimoto created a very formidable team and their ability to locate hidden Slaves in Brada City is unequaled, until one night while ZetaNine is questioning a Slave in an alley. A stranger joins her with the impression that she may be in danger. It wasn’t until later she learns her encounter with Randy Jorgensen has caused a ripple effect in her life.
When Yao’s and her encounter with the Skelviendo gang evolved into a katana duel to save her life, it was her quick reactions and heroic fighting skills that left her in infamy. She becomes known in the city as the Black Dragon—a title that comes with a bounty on her head, along with becoming the target of a group of the best katana fighters in the city—the Elite. ZetaNine must not only seek out the Slaves in the city but also defend herself from those ultimate katana fighters Elites seeking her head to prove they are the best.
Can life get any more complicated for ZetaNine? It soon does when she awakens in Randy Jorgenson’s bed with no knowledge of how she got there, or whose bed it is.
The exciting adventures of ZetaNine continue in the fourth book of The Wall War.
ZetaNine—widely feared as the greatest katana fighter in the province—has learned the hard truth: being the best doesn’t make you loved. Once a captured combatant from the north side of The Wall, she now serves the very people who imprisoned her, as the top security agent in Brada City. But her deadly skills have earned her a massive bounty, and deadly enemies are closing in.
Things take a darker turn when gangs start using light-bending shields, making them invisible during crimes. That technology could only come from the other side of The Wall. When the trail points to Stoneoban City and her friend Tomiko Erchitu’s company, ZetaNine finds herself in a race against time to uncover the truth.
For three years, ZetaNine and Yao Sugimoto have been the province’s most lethal defense against northern spies and special ops teams infiltrating Brada City. Known as the Black Dragon, ZetaNine earned her name from the city’s gangs—an homage to her deadly mastery of the katana, the weapon of choice among the gang’s Elite fighters.
The Elite want her dead—some for pride, others for the million-dollar bounty placed on her head. But every trap laid to kill her has only led to the deaths of their finest katana fighters and hundreds of foot soldiers.
Now, a new threat emerges: a team of Mu Slaves, relentless bounty hunters from the north, trained to complete their mission at any cost. Their target is ZetaNine.
As they ally with local gangs to eliminate her, ZetaNine faces more than physical danger. The toll of constant killing, the loss of loved ones, and the mystery of her forgotten past threaten to break her. Even the Black Dragon must ask: how long can she endure before she shatters?
Seamus, a young scholar, wanted to simply sneak past the Pundorion Guards that were besieging Lord Nicholan’s castle and return to his quiet life at the Scholar Hall in Grifness. But the Fates had other plans for him. While at the siege, he saved a female knight form death at the hands of the notorious female Chemmian Warrior, Satesis, earning a death pledge from her sister, Xoisis. More troubles arise when the king appoints him to be the King’s Forester in the infamous and mysterious Black Forest. There he must be vigilant, for Xoisis is seeking him, and he must protect the lord’s peasants from the trolls, minotaurs and those teasing sprites that live in the forest. So, if he isn’t killed by Xoisis, or the trolls, or the minotaurs, he‘s told by the Black Sorceress of the forest that to be the true Forester that he must face the test of the forest and if the test doesn’t kill him—well, the last five have disappeared.
This is the exciting story of how Seamus navigates his life through jealousy, distrust, falling in love with two women and finding with in himself the courage to offer his life for someone else.
In a forest born of magic, love may be the only power strong enough to stop a rising darkness.
Seamus, the King’s Forester, has passed the ancient test of the Black Forest, earning the title of True Forester—a feat no mortal has ever achieved. But in doing so, he’s done something even more impossible: he’s pierced the heart of Ravenel, the Sorceress of the Black Forest. Creator of its Fae, Trolls, Dwarfs, and Sprites, Ravenel is no ordinary enchantress. She and her sister Sarina live under a terrible curse cast by the dark wizard Atumni—one doomed to eternal life, the other trapped in endless sleep.
Only one thing can break the spell: a man must offer his life for Ravenel.
Seamus may be that man. But his heart is torn. Does he love Ravenel enough to sacrifice everything? Or does his devotion belong to Lady Sawine, the most decorated knight in all Landainia?
As signs of Atumni’s return begin to stir, the fate of the five kingdoms hangs in the balance. If the wizard rises again, war will consume the realm. Ravenel must choose—accept Seamus’s sacrifice and risk losing him forever, or defy prophecy and face Atumni alone.
Either way, the forest will never be the same.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Owen Wilde
John Owen Wilde graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) with a Bachelors of Art degree in the field of Communications. His studies included photography and cinematography, while also studying the various art mediums of water color, oil painting, and pottery. While living in New Zealand, John admired the Polynesian carving and has since collected several carvings and enjoys carving masks himself.
A native Utahan, John grew up in a farming community and thinks he has put up enough hay to fill Dodger Stadium. Because of his rural youth, he enjoys artwork by painters and photographers who depict rural America.
While attending Dixie College, John became intrigued with the motion picture industry. Finding his best option to pursue an education in cinematography, he transferred to BYU. While attending BYU he was able to participate in several university film projects. Upon graduation, John found employment in Salt Lake City with Schick Sunn Classic Pictures, where he learned the skills of post sound editing. He has been married for 51 years.