The Gods' Purpose

'Just then, he saw, emerging from the darkness, the most terrible horror he had ever laid his eyes upon. It - he could not name whether it was a she or a he - was a painfully thin creature, almost two metres tall; it came shambling into his sight, a creature naked and with no sex. Its skin, that otherwise had been very pale, was covered with wounds and ripped open in several places, vivid red, as though it had jumped in a pool of fire and by some inexplicable way survived it. The flesh of its face had melted, covering the sockets of its eyes, its nose had vanquished and where it was supposed to be there was only two tiny slits for nostrils. It also had no lips; its mouth was the thinnest of lines.'

As far as Ryan Lown remembers, strange nightmares haunts his nights. A deeply tormented boy, he suspects people - his family in special - to keep a secret from him. What? When a man at a festival suddenly and viciously attempts to kill him, this doubt, at first a suspicion, becomes an unmistakable certainty and he is sure there is something about his past that he needs to unravel. Many kilometres away, Melanie Redfyre's life changes forever as she predicts the arrival of her grandmother and brother. Alone and destitute, she finds herself passing through great adversities as she tries to escape a group that tries by all means to kill her. Who are these people? Have they any connection at all with the man that tried to kill Ryan? And moreover: what's their Purpose?

The story begins a few years previously these events, telling part of the story Ryan so much craves to unravel.

Cover art by: Evelyn Postali.