Shadows: Book of Aleth, Part One

By Michael Duncan

Description:

A stolen text... When the Book of Aleth is stolen, Aaron, captain of the Royal Guard, is ordered by Emperor Therion to reclaim the ancient tome. The mission thrusts Aaron into a world he's never known--a world of elves and dwarves, races long thought extinct; a world where everything he has known and believed is a lie.

A secret past... Forced to challenge his long-held beliefs, Aaron and his companions, two soldiers of the Royal Guard and two men of the Dwarvish kingdom of Brekken-Dahl, set out on a quest to recover the Book. Aaron resolves to discover the truth, and rescue the empire he is sworn to protect.

Book Takeaway:

You can courageously seek the truth.

Why the author wrote this book:

I wrote this book (and the series to follow) as an allegory to show the reality of a nation that has forgotten the truth. When truth is lost, the only thing that remains is a lie. All believers must take a passionate pursuit of the truth - even as Proverbs says, "Buy the truth, and do not sell it."