In the dim light of a storeroom, Vekaya wakes up, alone and with no memory of who she is, where she is, or how she got there. In an orphanage run by an arcane religious cabal, our first protagonist has no choice but to become an investigator, a rebel, and her very own hero. At nearly the same time and not far away, a mysterious and deadly force from an uncharted region causes the town of South Hall to destroy itself, leaving Gyrath and his little brother Caedrus equal parts baffled and horrified. Taken from a stable and easy life, they are now adrift in a world of wolf packs, shapeshifters, will-bending shamassons, and the death crawler: a worm made entirely of corpses, the size of a tower that breathes violent madness into those unlucky enough to be near it. The trio must learn to put aside their differences in the hopes that the three of them will survive their adventure and save Hammercleft - and possibly the world - from those who would dominate it. A Flash of Sparks is created by Emile Bienert, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

A Flash of Sparks

Vekaya was in the midst of a nightmare. Heart racing, she couldn’t feel her footfalls as she sprinted down the streets of a city she did not know. In the darkness, time slowed, her legs could physically not carry her at the speed her mind prodded at them to go. Making her way in the direction that Gyrath, the one person whose name she knew, had told her to run wasn’t easy. The streets turned. They bent around on themselves. It wasn’t long before time and fear swallowed the certainty that she was running in the proper direction. Still, she ran. An explosion rocked the city somewhere over her left shoulder. The danger was still behind her, and if she kept running, that was where it would stay. It would stay where she had left Gyrath.


Chapter 37: A Hero is Called