Guest Author, Larry Paris

 

These books brought me to tears with their amazing picture of God’s grace. And the stories are rich for those who love to read adventure.

The Seven Towers has its roots in a book I started in 1975 when I entered college. I read Pilgrim’s Progress. I envisioned a book like it but using Greek words for the names (I was taking Greek at the time) in order to make it more like a story than a straight allegory. In the mid 90’s I began again this time utilizing names from many languages but primarily Greek and Hebrew. Once again life intervened and I did not pick it up again until 2017. God said sit down and write. It had taken me years to write 30,000 words, but in six weeks I wrote 60,000. It was published that year under the title The Darkened Land, but as I was on a fixed income at that point I had tried to do everything myself. I found that I needed help and the book cover was the first thing to go before it was even published. God was good and provided the people I needed at a price I could afford. So it was republished in a second edition in 2018.

The Darkened Land is a story about a land of complete darkness. A land separated from the Kingdom of Light. But the King has given stones of light to dispel the darkness. He has sent his son, Eleutherias, to make a way for His subjects to return to His kingdom for the stones. Eleutherias has built a Bridge across the chasm that separates the Kingdom of light from the darkened land, and has established seven Great Cities with Seven Towers. These towers once held the Great Stones which shed light far and wide. But the Great Stones have been lost and only the light of the walls and towers of the Great Cities along with the stones the King has given to His people, the Ebenchaim, that have crossed the Bridge remain. Meanwhile, the denizens of darkness who hate the light make war against the Ebenchaim and the Great cities.

The Darkened Land follows Lachlaniel as he pursues a quest to get a stone and then as he and his friends fight for the Great City Agapay.

Book two of The Seven Towers, The Basaners and The Man Who Would Not Die, follows him to the Great City Chara. This is the land of the Basaners, men who hate the light and persecute the Ebenchaim. In this book, we also meet the chuchoteurs who whisper evil thoughts to people.

Book three, Can These Bones Live?, follows Velius and Farrah, from the first book, to the Great City Pistin. This city is dying. It has been invaded by the enemy and is succumbing to despair. This book should be on the shelves by the time you read this blog.

Books four through eight are still on the drawing board.

 

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https://www.amazon.com/Basaners-Seven-Towers-Larry-Paris/dp/B0D59MC9VQ.

 

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