A sea sought in song
(Book - Regular Print)

"Hugh Conrad was a seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter who thought he had seen it all but when he picked up that jangling phone in the mud-strewn lobby of a two-bit Bangalore hotel that rain-soaked night in June of '51, the last thing he'd expected to hear was the voice of his father who'd vanished off the face of the earth twenty-four years prior. The second-to-last thing he'd expected to hear was that the old man really had left Earth and ventured far beyond its boundaries. Hugh considered himself a worldly man, having survived childhood abandonment and the horrors of WWII but no amount of experience, skill, or raw ferocity had prepared him for the mission his father bequeaths him, leading him to the enigmatic realm of Arlam. Arlam, a realm of wonders and terrors, stretches beyond the wildest imagination - a land of ancient secrets and unforgiving landscapes, now under the oppressive rule of a seemingly invincible foe. In Arlam, accessed through a portal that spans alien centuries for every few months on Earth, resides Ilina Lightkeeper, the last descendant of Hugh's father's royal herald. Together, the unready adventurer and the uneasy scholar - the heir and the herald - must rally the remnants of a shattered kingdom, confronting an evil that exceeds the darkest fairy tales. Sacrificing all they hold dear, they serve prophecies they can scarcely comprehend, with the destiny of Arlam hanging in the balance."--Amazon.com