The Cloud, Book I: Path (full manuscript)
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THE CLOUD
SYNOPSIS
Two teenagers
Two angels
Two worlds
One choice
Barth Howe (15) and Marta Papin (16) don't have much in common-except they're not happy with their lives. Barth's parents are using up their life savings to send him to an elite school in the city, which they see as his first step in becoming a financial success. Marta attends the same school, is often alone in her family's big house, and doesn't like the person she's become. Barth dreams of staying on his family's farm. Marta dreams of having a family.
Both dreams become impossible when Marta gets embarrassed in front of her friends and runs away up Mount Pinnacle. Barth is sent to find her and bring her back safely.
But they don't come back. Not for years.
While on the mountain, Barth and Marta pass over to Path, a land full of natural beauty, mystery, and history spanning millennia and myth. But an evil has taken hold since Selika, the beloved Queen, was overthrown by Jovian, The Tyrant and... her husband.
Marta and Barth are given a choice: stay and fight to save Path or return to Earth. If Barth and Marta return, then Path will succumb to an evil that will firmly take hold and spread to other worlds. If they choose to stay, then Jovian and Selika will pass to Earth where they will continue their conflict.
Two must go, so two can stay.
Barth and Marta decide to stay.
Thankfully they will find many allies on Path, just as Selika will on Earth, to fight evil-on both worlds. Two worlds that are separate, but as our heroes and their families will learn, have been linked since the dawn of humankind, when the battle of good versus evil began.
A battle everyone hopes will one day end... and it can.
Path (manuscript complete) is the first book in a series of 9 novels titled The Cloud.
Book II, titled Once is in final revisions and proofing, and a first draft of book III, Truth, is almost complete. Books IV to IX are at various stages of writing and outlining.
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