MARK OF SHAMASH (Book One Keys of Destiny) By SSpjut TABLETS OF DESTINY ~~~~~~ Very often the very ones who hate us, are the ones destined to save us. KEYS OF DESTINY ~~~~~~ The fate of gods and men alike hang in the balance, their salvation found in an ancient prophecy written on Tablets not seen in over five thousand years. Time is running out, and if the the Tablets aren’t found and Key that unlocks them, the world will be plunged into a fate far worse than any flood. GOD MARKED ~~~~~~ Bastard born, Serac is a diviner in the Temple of the Sun-god Shamash, and has been marked by the gods to find the Tablets of Destiny, and save the Anunnaki from one of their own. Yet before Serac can do that, he must help a man who has sworn to kill him, find an ancient amulet and stop a sorcerer from summoning a demon from the Abyss. One powerful enough to destroy the world as well. BETRAYAL ~~~~~~ In the race to stop a sorcerer and save the Anunnaki and mankind from destruction, Serac and his friends will discoverer that very often the line between loyalty and betrayal, is forged in blood. Bastard born and demon-spawned, Serac, a diviner in the Temple of the sun-god Shamash, has just learned that the woman he loves is in love with someone else. Needing to put distance between himself and well meaning friends, Serac goes on a hunting expedition into the hills above Sippar, where he discovers an ancient sacrificial chamber, its walls covered in murals that are as familiar to him as the dreams hes been having about them since the day he was brought to the Temple as a child. Pulled into the cellis stone walls by magic as old as creation, Serac wakes to find himself in the middle of a battlefield where he is captured by Imdugud, Warden of Babylon and the god Marutuks son, then taken to an aerie high in the Zagros Mountains. It is there he learns about the Tablets of Destiny. Stones containing prophecies written by the god Anu and the Oracle of Kur. The first predicts the Anunnakis destruction as punishment for using men in their age long battle against one another. The second, their salvation — but only if Serac can find the Tablets of Destiny and the Key that unlocks them in time, and to do that, he must first locate the chronicles of a man named Endar, Keeper of History, Recorder of Knowledge, and the only person who might have left a clue as to where the Tablets are located. Tasked with helping Imdugud save the gods, Serac returns to the Temple where he is arrested, nearly killed, then coerced into helping the Captain of Sippars Guard, a man who has sworn to kill him, find an ancient amulet and stop a sorcerer from using blood magic to summon a demon from the ABYSS. One he intends using to purge the Land of Kings of its priests and their corruption. But finding clues to lost Tablets and ancient artifacts, are not the only things Serac needs answers to. Raped by a man she trusted then abandoned to raise his son alone, Seracs mother refuses to tell him who his father is or why her brother Mordecai wants Serac dead. Born with a birthmark believed by village shamans to be evidence that his mothers assailant had been a demon, Serac now hides the shame of his conception and birth under the robes of the NABU. With only two weeks until SE KIN KU, when the portal into the ABYSS is at its weakest, and the sorcerer most likely to try to bring the demon through, Serac, with the help of his friends and the Librarian Emmi, search the Temples Archives for clues not only on how to stop a sociopathic killer and redeem the gods, but how to free himself from a past that has the power to define his future, for good or evil — the choice is up to him. Or is it? Available Now @ Amazon: buff.ly/1GxZVYy Smashwords: buff.ly/1AjaJrN Nook: buff.ly/1sNZM0K Kobo: buff.ly/1C7Ey0t
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:26:04 +0000
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