The Tablets of Destiny, ancient artifacts of virtually incalculable power. Separately, they are able to wreak havoc on weather patterns, manipulate the energy supply, and seize control over death itself! Together, their power increases geometrically, limited only by the user's vision! Lost for millennia, the tablets have re-surfaced. Wherever they are found, strange phenomena have followed. Today, they are aggressively sought by a homicidal maniac with a dark history of brutality, who seeks the restoration of the bloody Babylonian Empire, setting the world back 4500 years! With the power to re-shape the world and wipe out modern civilization, his fanatical goals are within his grasp.
In order to stop him, renown adventurer and philanthropist Jeremiah Courage has assembled a team, each an expert in his or her own field. Together, they must race to seek out and secure the tablets, hidden in ancient and exotic location around the globe, before their adversary and his followers have a chance to use them to make his dreams of conquest a grim reality.
Courage's team of adventurers must travel to the four corners of the Earth, in a desperate race against time and the men working to re-shape reality. While El-Fahd seeks to use the tablet for his own sinister purposes, Courage and his team have another challenge. Every moment that the tablets are separated, the world suffers terrifying environmental upheavals, the scope of which are unknown in recorded history. They must find the tablets and stop him before the world is ripped apart by the terrifying power of the tablets, which threaten to destroy civilization itself!
Centuries after the Fall, the United States has been wiped away. The crumbling remains of the great American empire are home now only to savage, lawless tribes and packs of ravening Damned-the twisted children of the apocalypse. Most of those few who survived humanity's destruction spend their short lives in a violent struggle for survival.
But some light still flickers in the darkness: the Blessed of Bountiful live in seclusion, relying on walls both physical and spiritual to protect them from the Desolation that their world has become. Among them are the Saints, those few men and women born with superhuman abilities that the Blessed see as gifts from God. The violent apostate tribes of the Northeast Kingdom have always been a danger, but up until recently its small size and the vigilance of its people have made Bountiful an unappealing target. As attacks on the community grow harsher and more frequent, however, even the steadfast Blessed are forced to start preparing for the worst.
With her home's very existence threatened, seventeen year old Ever Oaks, a Saint with the power to heal, is forced to make a difficult choice, one that may come to define her people's future...
Exile was a semi-finalist in Mark Lawrence's Great Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (#SPFBO). Fantasy Faction said it was "extremely cool," and Bookish Lifestyle called it "more than just a story, a journey and an experience."
When I'm asked about it, I often describe it as "X-Men meets The Walking Dead."
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