Return to Now, Book One: The Infant Prince

Wherein is chronicled:
Jack’s first contact with the fox-shifter Tija’l;
the attack of the korvidai;
his journey on the back of the silver dragon;
Jack’s vision of the prophecy of Avalani'ra;
the reappearance of his childhood invisible friend, the wyvern, Orange;
Jack’s experience of the horrors of Kra’akal and its cursed citizens;
the repayment of an old debt;
and Jack’s decision about journeying to the Now.

Bullied middleschooler Jack Grayson has always felt like an outsider, as though he doesn't really belong in this world.

Turns out, he's right. He is actually from a magical otherworld called the Now.

Eleven years ago, he was hidden in this ordinary world, switched with a human baby, to protect him from the fairling sourceweaver who killed his parents. And now, he is told, he must return to the land of his birth to save the Now from a living abomination that, even now, oozes its way across the realm, corrupting the land and enslaving its people.

Now, normally, Jack wouldn't believe such a fairytale kind of tale. But it wasn't just anyone who told him; it was a telepathic white fox who suddenly shape-shifted into a human boy with the strangest amber eyes Jack had ever seen.

And frankly, whether Jack believes it or not is irrelevant, because malign forces know it to be true. The boyling has been found, after all these years. And everything he once knew about what is "real" is about to be turned upside-down.

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Return to Now, Book One: The Infant Prince

Wherein is chronicled:
Jack’s first contact with the fox-shifter Tija’l;
the attack of the korvidai;
his journey on the back of the silver dragon;
Jack’s vision of the prophecy of Avalani'ra;
the reappearance of his childhood invisible friend, the wyvern, Orange;
Jack’s experience of the horrors of Kra’akal and its cursed citizens;
the repayment of an old debt;
and Jack’s decision about journeying to the Now.

Bullied middleschooler Jack Grayson has always felt like an outsider, as though he doesn't really belong in this world.

Turns out, he's right. He is actually from a magical otherworld called the Now.

Eleven years ago, he was hidden in this ordinary world, switched with a human baby, to protect him from the fairling sourceweaver who killed his parents. And now, he is told, he must return to the land of his birth to save the Now from a living abomination that, even now, oozes its way across the realm, corrupting the land and enslaving its people.

Now, normally, Jack wouldn't believe such a fairytale kind of tale. But it wasn't just anyone who told him; it was a telepathic white fox who suddenly shape-shifted into a human boy with the strangest amber eyes Jack had ever seen.

And frankly, whether Jack believes it or not is irrelevant, because malign forces know it to be true. The boyling has been found, after all these years. And everything he once knew about what is "real" is about to be turned upside-down.

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Return to Now, Book One: The Infant Prince

Return to Now, Book One: The Infant Prince

by Brian Shepp
Return to Now, Book One: The Infant Prince

Return to Now, Book One: The Infant Prince

by Brian Shepp

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Overview

Wherein is chronicled:
Jack’s first contact with the fox-shifter Tija’l;
the attack of the korvidai;
his journey on the back of the silver dragon;
Jack’s vision of the prophecy of Avalani'ra;
the reappearance of his childhood invisible friend, the wyvern, Orange;
Jack’s experience of the horrors of Kra’akal and its cursed citizens;
the repayment of an old debt;
and Jack’s decision about journeying to the Now.

Bullied middleschooler Jack Grayson has always felt like an outsider, as though he doesn't really belong in this world.

Turns out, he's right. He is actually from a magical otherworld called the Now.

Eleven years ago, he was hidden in this ordinary world, switched with a human baby, to protect him from the fairling sourceweaver who killed his parents. And now, he is told, he must return to the land of his birth to save the Now from a living abomination that, even now, oozes its way across the realm, corrupting the land and enslaving its people.

Now, normally, Jack wouldn't believe such a fairytale kind of tale. But it wasn't just anyone who told him; it was a telepathic white fox who suddenly shape-shifted into a human boy with the strangest amber eyes Jack had ever seen.

And frankly, whether Jack believes it or not is irrelevant, because malign forces know it to be true. The boyling has been found, after all these years. And everything he once knew about what is "real" is about to be turned upside-down.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940011435249
Publisher: Brian Shepp
Publication date: 04/13/2011
Series: Return to Now , #1
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 12 Years

About the Author

"Return to Now" is Brian's first foray into the field of fantasy fiction. In the past, he has been a painter and fine artist, an award-winning indie filmmaker, screenwriter, and children's theater actor. He intends to be many other things in the future.

"What is literature
but the expression of moods
by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

And are there not moods
which need heaven, hell, purgatory,
and faeryland
for their expression,
no less than this dilapidated earth?

Nay, are there not moods which shall find no expression
unless there be men who dare to mix heaven, hell, purgatory,
and faeryland together...

Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize
whatever prey the heart long for,
and have no fear.
Everything exists,
everything is true,
and the earth is only a little dust under our feet."

- W. B. Yeats

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