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A teenager’s wish to escape his stressful life just came true — with otherworldly consequences.

Nothing is going right for Justin Holmes. Like many seventeen-year-olds, he sometimes wishes he could just run away and leave everything behind. But he gets more than he bargained for when he storms out of the house after an argument with his father and accidentally steps into a parallel universe of swords, shields, magic, and monsters.

Suddenly, Justin is desperate to find a way back to his ordinary life in small-town America. His search for answers takes an unexpected turn when a strange old man and a powerful mercenary recruit him to rescue a kidnapped princess. But their rescue mission quickly takes a disastrous turn and becomes a life-or-death flight deep into the unknown wilds. Justin and his unlikely allies are on the run from dark forces wielding deadly, arcane power — demonic beings that seem to have suddenly arrived from somewhere beyond this world . . . just like Justin.

Justin may not be a fighter, but he is intelligent and strong-willed. He soon realizes that nothing in this world is what it seems. Even his allies’ mission may have all been a ruse . . . to get to him.

Ancient secrets are revealed that could shake the foundations of this alternate world . . . and might unlock Justin’s portal home.

The Fallen Odyssey is a contemporary portal fantasy novel for college and “new adult” audiences. It is the first of a trilogy but can be enjoyed as a stand-alone novel. If you like epic, serious fantasy about dangerous quests in magical worlds, check out The Fallen Odyssey.

The Fallen Odyssey

The two armies kept their distance from one another-four thousand men and women of the League, and two thousand Enden soldiers. At the center, Leah Anavion, Olorus Antony, Hook Bard, and Marcus Worth convened around a fire.


Olorus tossed another armful of kindling into the flames. "I don't understand it," he said, sitting back down. "The League fights demon fleets and armies in the Raedittean. And we receive reports of even worse devastation in the east. Now, you say they're coming out of the west, as well! Is the Oikoumene surrounded?"


"I tell you only what I have seen with my own eyes," said Worth.


Leah shifted uncomfortably. Worth's account was all too familiar. He told of armies of coblyns behaving as soldiers, and though Worth and his men had never heard the word "cythraul" before, they described monstrous demon giants leading the invasion of Endenholm.


Chapter 74: Monsters