Chronicles of a Magi Series

A dream, surreal and frightening, begins the path of Mark Young's future; a path set long before he was even born. Fortunately, it's not a path he's doomed to walk alone. His course leads to true friends, fortune and a place where he learns to wield great power. This place is The Seventh Mountain, the place where Magi train. The Seventh Mountain conceals the direst legend known to man. Mark's fate lies within. "The Seventh Mountain by Gene Curtis is pure delight. Curtis wields a tremendous imagination and uses it to transport the reader to another world, where sword wielding Magi fight for good, evil lurks just out of sight and a young hero searches for his destiny. Sure to be compared to Harry Potter, but undeniably more compelling." - Jeremy Robinson

This is a continuation of the first book in the series where the hero, Mark Young, has pretty much come to terms with being treated as an adult. The line between right and wrong, good and evil is a bit less clear and the challenges come from choice rather than the situation. Some readers may think this story similar to Harry Potter too, but that thinking is stretching it a bit unless you think all schools of magi c are Hogwarts with another name. Besides, Harry never was very good with a sword. The notion of Magi is based on the Wise Men that bore gifts to the Christ Child. They represent the practitioners of the Zoroastrian religion of which there are many myths and legends about their deeds involving astrology, astronomy, healing, charity and knowledge of the spiritual world. The Magi of this series are derived from those Magi plus the swordsmanship, garb, horsemanship and other aspects of the Magi from the movies The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. Their religious views are influenced by Old Testament Judaism, without the blood sacrifices, which produces a character type not often seen in fantasy fiction: the warrior monk/cleric. The entire series is based on the question: What if it were possible to learn the powers of all the Biblical prophets; what would that school be like?

Following every clue to find and destroy the sunstone before Benrah’s forces discover they have a useless counterfeit and that the Magi forces still have the real one, as-well-as access to the information it contains, Mark abandons that quest to others in order to help LeOmi find the staff prophesied to be hers. At every turn their path is fraught with peril. The search for the sunstone and the hunt for the staff converge into a violent conflict amidst the backdrop of the American west that the Magi forces cannot afford to lose.

Ten Kingdoms sweats with high-tension anxiety and the perils heroes Mark and LeOmi face to stand against Benrah, the son of Satan. The future fate of the world rests in their hands. They discover details about what he is planning and must find a way to thwart his scheme. Ruby, one of Benrah’s lieutenants, is vicious in her attempts to stop them. The fight is on!

A sweeping tale of love, courage and cunning. (Faith Based Fantasy) On a mission to hide replicas of the sword from his staff, Mark and LeOmi encounter a young Ethiopian girl in training by a Chinese sorcerer. The girl’s family has arranged her marriage to someone she neither knows nor loves. Her heart belongs to the young boy that rescued her and her family from a nomadic raider at the cost of his freedom. She intends to marry him, not the man from the arrangement. But first, she must find him. The sorcerer has other plans. Mark and LeOmi discover the sorcerer has a copy of a stolen, secret scroll. If Benrah gets his hands on it, he can discover the way to Eden. When the copy is destroyed, they must recover the original to keep it out of Benrah’s hands. This scroll is in the possession of an ancient Chinese prince, forever cursed by a demon to live out eternity as neither flesh nor spirit, but something in between. According to the curse, the prince can only become human again when he consumes the flesh of the female warrior that can defeat him.