W.A. Berends

Book 1 of the Veiled Truths series.

Locus of Souls: The Staff of Melchior

Status: Draft complete.

Six thousand years ago, a great evil was unleashed upon the world in the form of the Nephilim—a race of half-angel, half-human giants so terrible that it took a global flood to ultimately eradicate them.

Humanity’s ancient protectors, the Mish’en, were the only ones able to stand against these giants. Gifted with special powers, they held the Nephilim at bay beyond the Titan Wall for a thousand years, until the day they forsook their oaths and disappeared.

Left unchecked, the Nephilim overwhelmed the ancient world, corrupting it so completely that the Creator sent a flood to cleanse the earth of their evil. Though the giants were destroyed, the evil that spawned them remained.

Dark prophecies speak of the Nephilim’s return and the end of the world, while others foretell the return of the Mish’en. Will the oath-breakers reappear in time to oppose the rising tide of evil about to be unleashed?

Jake, a lone soldier returning from a war he cannot remember to a life that has left him behind, is drawn into a hidden realm of mysteries and legends beyond his wildest imagination.

Will he discover his true identity and purpose before the Nephilim rise again to ravage the earth—or will the shadows of his past crush him along with the rest of mankind?

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