I’m so excited about this book. It seems like I’ve been working on it since T-Rex was in diapers. Its original format offers a totally new reader experience–one I hope will be educational in addition to entertaining.

And, it’s a CLEAN FANTASY of which I’m very proud. It’s hard to find a grown-up fantasy that isn’t splattered with gratuitous sex and violence.

Tempus Crystal is the first book in my Domus series; the second book is in progress. I promise it won’t take a dinosaur’s age to complete.

The cover is in development. I’m playing with crystals such as this one, plus steampunk clockworks, and ice caves! I may have another VOTE FOR THE COVER since the Daddy Trails voting was so much fun. What do you think?

A SHORT SYNOPSIS:

Lichen Ipse is a man driven by ego.  His ambition steered him to triumph as a Top Gun pilot and served him well in his business acumen for financial success. But when his F-22 Raptor accident altered his path, it allowed him to pursue a lifelong question: where and what was Domus?

Lichen’s grandfather Q lived in Domus and has communicated with him once a year since Lichen’s eighth birthday. Finally, the day arrives for Lichen to accompany his mother to Domus. From the moment Lichen steps from the conjured carriage into the world of the Fey, it is far more than he had imagined.

Domus enchants him with its beauty and sings to his heart in a voice he has never heard before; for the first time in his life, he feels like he belongs. Q welcomes him as heir and Isabella, a beautiful healer, steals his heart.

At the height of Lichen’s newfound life, he is kidnapped, tortured, and held in slavery.  Lichen loses contact with the self he had just discovered and allows his ego to make revenge his driving force.  When his schemes take him to the point of recognizing his vengeance, he learns that his plot for retribution will destroy the very thing he loves, Domus and everyone in it.

Lichen not only battles himself but a fierce enemy who seeks total control of Domus. Lichen must discover the way through his own dark heart and in finding his soul save Isabella and Domus.