Overview: It's 1985 and twenty-five year old singer/songwriter Alexander Drake is riding the rock charts. He has fame, fortune, looks, and talent. He also has Vivian Martin, his manager, who rescued him from the streets when he was homeless at seventeen. As leader of The Alex Drake Band, Alexander c
Haelend's Ballad
โ Scribed by Ian V. Conrey
- Book ID
- 111089648
- Publisher
- Ian Conrey
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 472 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781736880623
- ASIN
- B091BSWD8D
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Multiple award winning novel, including a 2022 gold medal award from Reader's Favorite.
"Some call me Murderer, others call me Lord. I've been called Savior and Enslaver. But no one has ever called me Child."
A young man signs his own death warrant when he joins an already failing militia. A teenage girl is haunted by her childhood abuse and begins to crave the very things she hates. A childless mother finds herself on the run as a convicted murderer. Yet they are all unaware that their own fates are tied to a young orphan who has drowned and come back to life in a foreign land where he will be the death of everyone he meets.
Haelend's Ballad is a grimdark fantasy/steampunk tale about what happens when men and women from two colliding cultures realize they may not be on the right side. Heroes are villains. The persecuted are oppressors. And when rumors begin to spread that the world is dying, the darkness of their own hearts...
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