Worlds of Light Trilogy
(2020)(A book in the Worlds of Light series)
An omnibus of novels by J W Elliot
His mother is dead, and his father has disappeared. Kell Crawford embarks on a desperate quest to discover why, only to find himself embroiled in a battle of cosmic dimensions against skeletal priests, faceless shadows, a sweeping plague, and the remnants of human evil that threaten the final unmaking of all creation. To succeed, he must recreate the Keepers of the Light and confront the evil in an epic battle that can only end in his death.
Book I The Cleansing
Some secrets are written in ash and fire.
Kell Crawford lives alone with his mother, who has a bizarre fascination with light. When she is murdered by a mysterious stranger, Kell goes on the run to escape the murderer and find the father who abandoned him as a baby. Chasing his mother’s last cryptic message, Kell finds his way into an underground tomb, which transports him to a strange temple where skeletal priests worship the Light and think he is their Promised One. But something has gone wrong. Some other being has possessed a portion of his soul. The priests fear and hate him, and a terrible darkness seeks to claim him—all while an ominous power is growing inside him. Now, Kell must learn to harness that power before he loses everything—even his soul.
Book II The Rending
Do you fear the Shadows?
Brune, a seventeen-year-old fisherman living in an ethnic labor camp called a pod, receives memories from inanimate objects. When he is touched by the Light and his dangerous power is revealed, he is forced to flee for his life, pursued by the Pod Authorities and the Shaetán, faceless Shadows that seek to claim him. Now, he must confront the competing powers within him and face the dark truth that he may be the very thing he hates and fears—the thing he must destroy.
Kell Crawford faces the rise of a new cult that worships the skeletons of the priests he was forced to kill when he cleansed the Temple of Light. Rebellion sweeps the land, and Kell is attacked by faceless Shadows trying to cut him off from the Light, the source of his power. When rebels descend on the City of Light, he races to save the city and the new Chosen Ones Illurien has sent before they are lost to the Shadows and the fabric of space and time is torn asunder.
Book III The Unmaking
Don’t let them in!
Anessa Gray lives in a drowsy, New England town she longs to escape. Malicious lights begin hunting her, and a terrible, wasting sickness sweeps over the land. Everything and everyone she loves are threatened with destruction. She and the high school outcast, Jerrald Quinn, flee in search of the one man who can stop the madness—Kell Crawford. But he disappeared months ago. Now, they are pursued by an evil so depraved it will stop at nothing to destroy them. Anessa must either embrace the evil that stalks her or witness the final unmaking of life itself.
Kell Crawford is faced with the brutal murder of his friend, the archivist and scholar, and the return of the evil that once stalked him in the Temple of Light. Chaos and destruction roam the land as Kell struggles to understand the nature of this new threat and how to defeat it. When Brune and Rhianna discover that ancient blood sacrifices are being performed and the King succumbs to the evil, Kell must race to confront the evil before all of creation is unmade. Win or lose the final battle can only have one outcome for him.
Genre: Fantasy
Book I The Cleansing
Some secrets are written in ash and fire.
Kell Crawford lives alone with his mother, who has a bizarre fascination with light. When she is murdered by a mysterious stranger, Kell goes on the run to escape the murderer and find the father who abandoned him as a baby. Chasing his mother’s last cryptic message, Kell finds his way into an underground tomb, which transports him to a strange temple where skeletal priests worship the Light and think he is their Promised One. But something has gone wrong. Some other being has possessed a portion of his soul. The priests fear and hate him, and a terrible darkness seeks to claim him—all while an ominous power is growing inside him. Now, Kell must learn to harness that power before he loses everything—even his soul.
Book II The Rending
Do you fear the Shadows?
Brune, a seventeen-year-old fisherman living in an ethnic labor camp called a pod, receives memories from inanimate objects. When he is touched by the Light and his dangerous power is revealed, he is forced to flee for his life, pursued by the Pod Authorities and the Shaetán, faceless Shadows that seek to claim him. Now, he must confront the competing powers within him and face the dark truth that he may be the very thing he hates and fears—the thing he must destroy.
Kell Crawford faces the rise of a new cult that worships the skeletons of the priests he was forced to kill when he cleansed the Temple of Light. Rebellion sweeps the land, and Kell is attacked by faceless Shadows trying to cut him off from the Light, the source of his power. When rebels descend on the City of Light, he races to save the city and the new Chosen Ones Illurien has sent before they are lost to the Shadows and the fabric of space and time is torn asunder.
Book III The Unmaking
Don’t let them in!
Anessa Gray lives in a drowsy, New England town she longs to escape. Malicious lights begin hunting her, and a terrible, wasting sickness sweeps over the land. Everything and everyone she loves are threatened with destruction. She and the high school outcast, Jerrald Quinn, flee in search of the one man who can stop the madness—Kell Crawford. But he disappeared months ago. Now, they are pursued by an evil so depraved it will stop at nothing to destroy them. Anessa must either embrace the evil that stalks her or witness the final unmaking of life itself.
Kell Crawford is faced with the brutal murder of his friend, the archivist and scholar, and the return of the evil that once stalked him in the Temple of Light. Chaos and destruction roam the land as Kell struggles to understand the nature of this new threat and how to defeat it. When Brune and Rhianna discover that ancient blood sacrifices are being performed and the King succumbs to the evil, Kell must race to confront the evil before all of creation is unmade. Win or lose the final battle can only have one outcome for him.
Genre: Fantasy
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