The Second Sun: Vol. 1

By Kristof Morrow

Amidst the perils the lords suffer their people to endure is an island paradise called Cero, the only place of magic known on earth and encircled by a deadly mist preventing anyone unwelcome from entering. Giants and fae folk occupy this promised land with their "chosen," a word to describe their soul mates they find and return with to Cero. They are awarded thousands of years of life and once they've arrived at the point of death, they surrender themselves to the soil and are buried with a seed to transform into an elder, taking on the likeness and function of the seed matured. However, these denizens become riddled with unease when a young girl is recovered alive from a locked chest in a pirate ship that drifted through the mist and landed upon their shores. She reveals the crew was annihilated by an unknown threat, prompting two scholars of paradise to leave their home to discover the truth of their deaths to ensure the safety of Cero and their people.

Across the ocean exists a fleet of military ships hailing from a nation occupied by an empire governed by religious fanatics known as the Polemarx. Captain Valara is of great renown for her brutality towards slavers and commands the wayward sailors on the Raven's Word from the nation of Odin, working to rebuild their forces to retake their homeland. Their story begins with the rescue of ten children from merchants of bondage on the eve of their return to their country's fortress Valheim on the Hells sea (half a world away) for the purpose of receiving new orders from their surviving congress.

In the eastern hemisphere, at the height of a rebellion in the countryside of the Wooloe empire, a squire named Rade Erinon is fated to a delayed knighting due to the death of his emperor and serves his contemporary Ser Barimon in an effort to gain the favor with the council he desires to elevate his family name. The knight, though, expresses no warmth towards his ward and when they are separated upon the squire's kidnapping, Rade is spared certain death by a most unlikely deliverer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BVTFZWN1
• ISBN13: 9798377552536
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"