These are the Fovean Chronicles

Imagine yourself, born into the suburbs, your parents working class people, your school nothing special.

Imagine that, for some reason far beyond your understanding as a very young child, a god that you didn't even know existed ear-marked you as his bargaining chip in a trade across realities.

Imagine that, from the time of that first first meeting and for your next eighteen years, that god - Anubis - threw everything he could think of at you, to break you, to torment you, to forge you into this thing to be traded.

And imagine that, at the end of it all, you passed all of the tests, leaving your life in a shambles, never knowing that you were being tested at all and, when the time came, Anubis appeared and tricked you into giving up your soul to him, only to make the trade and give you over to another god, named War, who by comparison made Anubis seem like a pretty nice guy.

I'm Randy Morden - welcome to my world. A world named 'Fovea,' where magic is real, technology the stuff of fantasy, and warriors with swords ride horses into battle, trying to stay one step ahead of their gods' will. I didn't ask for this life, but I promise you: before anyone ever knocks me down again, I'm going to have their blood on my knuckles, because a man can only be pushed so far!

To say that Randy Morden had an effect on Fovea is an understatement.  More than ten years after his arrival, the Fovean High Council is in a shambles, the supremacy of the Uman-Chi is a memory, and Eldador is an Empire, not a kingdom.

An Uman-Chi girl finds herself with a song to sing, a song which is a gift from the goddess Eveave.  When she sings it, another call will come to Earth, a new call for two new champions, a young girl and an old man, for the world where magic is used like technology, and technology is just starting to appear.

Now War is about to rage across Fovea, and the greedy Eldadorian government is at the center of it.  These two champions from Earth have a decision to make - one not so easy as they might think:

Which side are they on?

Travel with Bill and Melissa in the footsteps of the Conqueror and the shadow of the Wolf, and ask yourself: how do you fight the invincible warrior, especially considering that your failure is already foretold?

The Eldadorian Empire has gone to war, and the Emperor Rancor Mordetur has left the building!

In his place, Tartan Stowe, the son of the old King, is trying to keep things all together.  After an unsuccessful invasion and the kidnapping of the Princess Lee, Tartan is faced with revolting Wolf Soldiers, angry nobles and someone trying to kill him.

Now comes a clubfoot boy with a strange gift, a stranger weapon and a mother who is both beautiful and deadly, and Tartan has to wonder if he'll wake up tomorrow with a dagger in his chest!

Not Your Father's Eldadorian Empire starts off the Intermission - three books running simultaneously at the end of the Fovean wars.  If you haven't read the first two books yet, you can dip your toes in here and see if you'll like them, without ruining the series.  If you have read the first two, this just continues the story.

Twelve years ago, a man rode out of the Great Northern Mountains on a magnificent white stallion, and entered a city called 'Myr,' where he met a girl named 'Aileen.' She was a sweet girl and a true daughter of the god Law, but she gave herself to this handsome stranger, and in the nature of young men, the stranger took her gift and left her without a backward glance, but instead a child.

This is not the story of that man.

This girl, Aileen, raised up a strong son, and named him Eric, and schooled him as a true son of Law.  She, the shamed daughter of a brewer, remained true to her one love and prayed for his return, and remained chaste.  The girl, Aileen, tried to live an exemplary life despite her one failing.

This is not her story.

This is the story of a bastard who realizes that his father is ruthless Emperor of the Eldadorian Empire.  This is the tale of a boy who will become a man, and of a man who has yet to realize his fate as the champion of a god.

The Fovean Chronicles are the story of Randy Morden, a fantasy novel series about a man of our world, thrust into another against his will, and forced not only to survive, but to succeed, where success is undefined.

It is a story of the lack of faith, and what a man would become, if he could know his god's will.

If you love historically based high fantasy or science fiction, or just good rough and tumble swords & sorcery, then you'll really enjoy The Fovean Chronicles.