Catherine Gruben

Dreaded King: a Son Rises Catherine Gruben

Publisher Marketing: I really don't know where to start. This is not an easy book to explain, especially in the fifty-or-so words they allow for these summaries. (Does anyone else find such word restrictions ridiculously choking? Choking, that reminds me of my high-collared suit Vera wants me to wear for our opera tonight, and that reminds me I don't have much time to write this, perhaps it is a good thing it is supposed to be short.) But then why should it be difficult? I am only the translator of these remarkable texts, let me let the authors themselves tell you what their account is about. Here are a few (brief) selections from their own words; Charlie: "For one wild moment as I saw the place Corinth's cart was being driven to, I fancied he had snuffed out every other light and left only his own. It brought my feet to a standstill, and I stood shivering with helpless terror in the dark shadows looking at the beautiful gates and the awesome mansion within the wall. It is what he wanted in the spiritual realm I knew; to make his Niathalins and their hard, bloody religion the only option in the world and everything else snuffed out and forgotten. Little did he know how powerless he was to overthrow the God who had made the light in the first place." Corinth: "A grin broke over my face as I heard a merthyl's grunting bellow come from inside, and I realized we actually did have a chance at escape. A very small one, but a chance." Meagan: "There was no humanly possible way the king could survive this."