Souls of the Never: Tales of the Neverwar, #1

By CJ Rutherford

Two souls. Two worlds. One enemy.

On Teralia, magic hides behind the Veil. For thousands of years the people have lived in peace and seclusion, separated from the rest of reality, but now the shred of darkness left behind after the first soul war begins to stir.

Shadows seeps greedily into the forest, spreading disease and corruption, but even as they inch inwards, their bane arrives from another world.

In Belfast, 20-year-old Katheryne's life is a tragedy of torture and torment, Every time she shuts her eyes her dreams threaten to rip her apart. As her nightmares become reality, she realizes something evil wants our world, and it’s coming through her to get it. 

Only the whisper of a stranger inside her dreams keeps her sane, but she can’t last much longer.

Against her will, Katheryne is catapulted into a battle that has raged for millennia, and the fate of her world, and countless others, lies in her hands. 
Can she free the magic, and use it to defeat the rising darkness? Pray that she can, because if she fails, we will beg for death. For isn’t death a greater gift than being soulless?

• Language: English
• Publisher: CJ Rutherford
• Release date: Sep 8, 2014
• ISBN: 9781386524335

CJ Rutherford

CJ Rutherford has always been a story teller, even if they started out in his mind only. He grew up on a farm in very rural Ireland, and was left pretty much to his own devices most of the time. ​So, he invented his own world, with fairies, trolls, and other mystical creatures. ​His stories stayed with him throughout his life, sometimes scrawled down on scraps of paper, and occasionally brought to life in a sketch (although he’s the first to admit what he drew and what you might see might not bear any similarity to each other.) ​Along came two daughters, and at last he had an outlet for his imagination. As the girls grew up they were enthralled by the characters and the worlds their father created. He even brought them to life in his fantasy world, and they never knew when he sat down to tell them their bed-time story, whether they would be fighting a dragon or playing with one. ​But time moves on, and daughters grow up, and soon enough, CJ needed another way to tell his tales. The rest, as they say, is history…or the future, depending on how you look at it. Tales of the Neverwar is a unique fantasy series, spanning two worlds, one of magic and one of science. Millennia ago, magic was hidden to prevent it being used by an ancient evil malevolence to conquer the universe. Now, the spell hiding it is failing, and the magical land of Teralia is about to re-enter our world. The Darkness, banished for thousands of years, awakens as the magic grows stronger, and searches for a way to use this new magic, this 'science', to free itself from the prison entombing it. 20-year-old Katheryn’s ordinary life is turned upside down when she discovers she’s the only thing standing between survival, and the destruction of everything she loves. So begins a desperate battle across time, space, and multiple dimensions, as magic collides with science in an ancient battle for supremacy…for whoever controls the magic, wins the war.