The Legend and the Dark

The Legend and the Dark is the novel I'm currently submitting to agents. It is a fantasy novel of approximately 125,000 words and while it is a completely stand alone novel, it has the potential to become the first book of a series.

Mallandor is dead. At least, that's what the king hopes. He masterminded a genocidal massacre that wiped out all the Fallerians thirty years ago, but the Overlord's youngest son was never found. For years, the king searched for the missing heir, but to no avail. Finally, he decides--Mallandor is dead.

He was wrong.

Infiltrating the new society using a number of aliases, Mallandor, now 'Mallor' becomes a legendary thief while pursuing his revenge. He learns that the insurgent king did not act alone and thus his list of targets and his retaliatory plan grows. However, thirty-six hours before the culmination of his life-long quest, Mallor learns from his lover that he has a daughter, and that she is being held hostage by a sadistic, magic-abusing sorcerer. The price for her release is the Armilleae, a cursed holy relic desired by everyone for its restorative powers, including the ailing goddess to whom it belongs.

If Mallor recovers the missing Armilleae and uses it to buy Zoelle’s freedom, his goddess will die, the souls of the dead Fallerians will remain unredeemed, and his home city of Sepeccare and all of its inhabitants including Zoelle will be dragged into a watery hell. If he returns the relic to his goddess, she will survive, but his daughter will die. With Zoelle doomed regardless of his decision, Mallor searches for a third option while being hunted by three people: an officer in the insurgent king's secret police who claims to have killed him once before, his own deadly duplicate, created by the cursed holy relic and loyal to the ruler of hell, and his ex-wife, a manipulative, shape-changing sorceress, and keeper of a secret darker than Mallor's own history.

It is during this search that Mallor confronts his destiny and realizes the true purpose of his existence.

I'll keep you posted on the progress of this book.

Take care, my friends...