The Apotheosis Break

By Josh Rhoades and Mike Rutledge

Book Overview

The life of an airshipman is violent and short, but every sailor still breathing in the clouds has a tale of Anton Mikhailovich.Vasili, his fourteen year old son, never knew the man. The swashbuckling captain died mysteriously when the boy was five, leaving only tall tales and long shadows. His father's remembrance ever looming, Vasili wants to leave his tiny frontier village and become a skysailing legend of his own accord.A charismatic traveler arrives on an airship, a bishop with robes as worn as his smile. He comes to convey a funerary Telling of Anton some nine years overdue. Late but still timely, the traveler hints that his vessel may be looking for a new deckhand. He could put in a good word for the son of Anton.The twinkling lights of home disappear over the horizon and the boy begins his own adventure, starting his own tale as he learns the truth of his father's.But the world and its skies are nothing like Vasili's books. The serendipitous airship is the famed Apotheosis Break, Anton's old ship, filled with beguiling shard hunters now at the end of their rope. They have already lost good men looking for Vasili. They may still lose everything seeking the forgotten legacy of Captain Mikhailovich.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1539678822
• ISBN13: 9781539678823
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"