A Heart's Crucible

Joq is a Peri sprite whose flippant life unravels as her kind are fiend hunted by a demon named Ahriman. She journeys on a quest with high cost—a fantasy, an adventure and a romance, drawing on Middle Eastern folklore—a spoofy tale filled with exotic geography.

— A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul ― Thomas Moore — poet and author of Lalla Rookh — the inspiration for my tale.

The 18 chapters are the first completed volume of a proposed trilogy involving Joq.