The Scroll of Isidor

by Holden Sheppard

Overview

Levin Ruck was once a great warrior mage: the battle-scarred wartime hero of the alpine village of Dervine and defender of the Kingdom of Flaran. But with peacetime stretching into its seventh year, opportunities for action have been scarce – even in his role as Deputy Chief of the village.

So when Desma the orchard keeper rides in late one night with news of ominous noises in the mountains, Lev knows the time for action has come.

But when Chief Magnus refuses to act, Lev takes matters into his own hands. Defying orders, he and Desma ride to the mountains to investigate the source of the disturbance.

What they discover is beyond their worst fears: a deadly threat has arrived on the village’s doorstep – and Lev and Desma are Dervine’s first and only line of defence.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940154054932
Publisher:	Holden Sheppard
Publication date:	03/06/2017
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	180 KB

About the Author

It only took Holden Sheppard two summers of working as a labourer for his father's earthmoving business to realise he wanted something different from life. At 18, he packed up everything he owned (including a pogo stick and a bunch of mix tapes), left his hometown of Geraldton, Western Australia and drove his '91 Nissan Pulsar four hours south to the state's capital, Perth, to pursue his passion for writing.

After a rough landing at university - learning literary theory was a world away from digging trenches and laying pipes - Holden eventually found his feet. Studying a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Writing, he was listed as one of the Top 100 students at Edith Cowan University, achieved the highest overall mark in the course and graduated with First Class Honours in 2013.

​After winning a prestigious ArtStart grant from the Australia Council for the Arts in 2015, Holden began work on his first full-length book. In 2016, he undertook a mentorship through the Australian Society of Authors to develop his manuscript, a Young Adult novel. His short fiction has been published in Indigo Journal and page seventeen, and he has also written for the Huffington Post, the ABC, DNA Magazine and FasterLouder. Holden has three short stories available as free eBooks through all major eBook retailers.

When he's not writing, Holden works as a copywriter and sessional lecturer at Edith Cowan University. In 2017, he became the Vice President of the Peter Cowan Writers’ Centre in Joondalup.

Holden has always been a walking contradiction: a gym junkie who has played Pokemon competitively; a sensitive geek who loves aggressive punk rock; and a bogan who learned to speak French. He is the only writer he knows who has switched to decaf and lived to tell the tale, and he's quit smoking more times than he cares to admit.