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A Rising Darkness: Book 1 of the Hand of Justice
A Rising Darkness: Book 1 of the Hand of Justice
A Rising Darkness: Book 1 of the Hand of Justice
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I was six cycles old when I was taken. The soldiers came with ugly gaping mouths that screamed and yelled and drooled. They raped and murdered my father, my mother, my older brother and my sister. I was taken and given as a gift to the Crown Prince of Zetaria a monstrous, twisted man of strange tastes and some persuasions.

But for the Kings Vizier, Anubis I would have been destined for a life of misery and depravity until the Prince tired of me. Anubis seized me from the Crown Princes clutches before the man could so much as breathe on me, claiming me as tribute for an enchantment worked in battle.
The old mage raised me as the son he would never have.

On that day my life changed forever.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 28, 2012
ISBN9781468583205
A Rising Darkness: Book 1 of the Hand of Justice
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Nikki Dorakis

I have been writing for a number of years. My work as a psychiatric nurse has always taken precedence until at the ripe old age of fifty-five, I decided to retire and go part-time so that I could work on his books. I am a Pagan priest and an ordained minister of the Church of Spiritual Humanism and in this series I draw on the teachings, myths and legends of my religion in the creation of my characters. I write for pleasure and now want to share that pleasure with you. I hope this brings you as much enjoyment in the reading of it as it gave me in the writing of it. Nikki Dorakis passed away suddenly on 4 April 2013.

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