An Appalachian Saga in Two Worlds
Two sagas, one bloodline — a family carried from a 1750s frontier ridge, through a second American civil war, into a kingdom no map remembers.
It begins on a ridgeline in 1754, with a boy who trades civilization for seventy-six acres of nowhere. It ends — or doesn't — in Eden, a kingdom of gods, kings, and children called Boiyeks, where a soldier's letters home stop being letters and start being scripture.
Short Stories
A Short Story Collection
A frontiersman named Ethan trades civilization for a hollow between two ridgelines and a woman named Halona. A boy named Zachary buries his parents in a starving season and hears a voice in the woods that isn't wholly his own. And their descendant Ryan — grandson, soldier, believer — marches into a second American civil war carrying letters home that get harder to write with every mile.
Appalachian Chronicles is a multigenerational epic about hunger, faith, and what it costs to stay free — on a ridge, on a farm, or on a battlefield three hundred years later.
“Climbing the Appalachians is the easy part. Coming back down is what kills a man.”
The Kasan Saga · Book One
On the far side of a fracture no one saw open, Kasan Ooften of the Povathel wakes in a world lit by moving paintings and ruled by machines his grandmother's stories never warned him about. He isn't the only one lost between worlds — an American soldier named Ryan and the boy he's raising as his own are about to learn that the war they left behind was never the only one.
The First Spark is a myth-soaked reckoning with gods, kingdoms, and the family we build when our own is gone — the same saga as Appalachian Chronicles, witnessed from the other side of the door.
“My name is Kasan Ooften, of the Povathel. This is my story.”
Book One
Field Letters & Temple Scrolls
A soldier's letters home. A grandmother's stories, told by candlelight. Neither one knows yet that the other exists.
Dispatch · November 4th, 2029
“The tide's turned… Everything felt like it was finally going right, and then in one weekend it all came apart… Don't pray for me. Pray for the country.”
Ryan, to his grandmother — Appalachian Chronicles
The Temple at Nemu
“We believe in a true good. Only trueness and good can be found through wickedness and evil. The world needs wickedness so that it can shed its light properly on the love which overpowers it.”
Eur, instructor — The First Spark
The Ridge, 1754
“No more rules. No more authority. Just life, lived the way it was supposed to be lived. Free.”
Ethan — Appalachian Chronicles
Epilogue · A Letter Never Sent
“Allow me to assure you — if God is anywhere on this earth, He is right here. In paradise… Wherever you are, I will find you again.”
Alex, to Ryan — The First Spark
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