Solstice Series

A maligned and shamed teenager transforms into our planet's only hope of salvation. Blenkush pens an engaging story of sorrow, courage, and learning how to love by overcoming fear in the Solstice Series.  The first-person narrative features a young woman (Julissa) who is desperately trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered life after the death of her boyfriend and the disappearance of her father within a year's time. Amid hardship, Blenkush tightly weaves Julissa and Aaron's slow-building relation within an engaging plot. Replete with a well-developed quasi-dystopian cast, Blenkush manages to throw in light-hearted moments.  Of course of key interest—aside from Julissa and Aaron's budding romance, Blenkush spends a great deal of time incorporating within his plot historical information about the mysticism behind Mt. Shasta, the lost city of Telos, Mu (the cradle of mankind), and the Lemurians' connection with another lost city: Atlantis. Blenkush keeps his story constantly flowing by combining all of the above-mentioned literary elements, as well as including un-hackneyed scenarios and cliff-hanging chapter endings. A five-book epic tale, the Solstice Series offers fantasy romance aficionados a unique and unforgettable storyline.

A maligned and shamed teenager transforms into our planet's only hope of salvation. In volume two of the SOLSTICE SERIES, SACRIFICE, Julissa faces challenges and threats on all sides.  Aaron is identified as the prime suspect in Louk Hollingsworth's death.  Questions linger as to Aaron's sexual preference, age, and superhuman skills.  Cherrie, a nymphomaniac, becomes sexually entwined with Jason Chavez, who seeks to revenge Louk's death.  Nani Doris, an Atlantean and the leader of the Sons and Daughters of Belial, with comparable skills to Aaron, befriends Julissa while making advances on Aaron.  Dierdra, Julissa's mother, accepts a job in Minnesota.  Julissa's principal, head-hunter and Godzog, sanctions her for kissing Joe Leach, her teacher. As the tension builds with others feeling the same negativity toward Aaron, Julissa is torn between loving or hating Aaron, even as she learns profound details about the ancient Lemurians.  Aaron gifts Julissa a Lemurian communication crystal, which alters her physical and emotional being, triggering clarity and chaos.  Julissa learns Aaron recharges from the energy centers of Bennu and Mount Shastina, that he can walk on snow, is an expert in Aikido, and often deploys an invisible shield for protection.  And that he can be sexually aroused. Without realizing it, Julissa steps into the direct path of a centuries-old Atlantean/Lemurian ideological conflict. When Julissa finds out that she'll be leaving California and moving back home to Minnesota, she revolts, choosing to climb the perilous Mt. Shasta with Aaron.  But at what cost?       

In this fantasy romance, magical realism series, a suicidal young girl transforms into the savior of an ancient race. In Telos, the city buried beneath Mount Shastina, the Remnant Lemurians' DNA strain is at its end.  On the earth's surface, world apocalypse looms.  A surface-equal, a virgin with virtuous heart and pure blood must be found to stave off extinction of the Lemurian race before life on earth is obliterated.  To this end, the Lemurians send their equal, Aaron Delmon, topside to secure a bride. Rarely does one escape their destiny, or so they say. Julissa Grant just never dreamed hers would include becoming the Virgin Mother to the leader of the New World, producer of pluripotent cells, a manipulator of life-force energy, or an ignor-inferus – one with Lemurian physical traits but lacking the skills and wisdom of a true Lemurian.  After all, she's just a sixteen-year-old Midwestern Catholic-raised girl who wanted nothing more than to find renewed hope after death and despondency crushed her idyllic perception of the world. After the deaths of her father and a dear friend, Julissa succumbs to disillusionment when her mother uproots and moves her cross-country.  Throwing caution to the wind, Julissa skips class one day to go boy-hunting.  Here she meets the high school's outcast, Aaron Delmon.  She becomes infatuated with the golden-haired, blue-eyed boy who has mastered the Lemurian art of transferring and manipulating life-force energy and who's training to be a Mnemonist – one who remembers all.  As she's drawn into Aaron's world, Julissa is introduced to a surreal Utopian way of life, one which is ruled by the Law of One - that all things are connected. As their relationship evolves, Julissa uses Aaron as a conduit to explore the Lemurian world into which she has fallen.  When Aaron is suspected of murdering a classmate, relationships crumble.  Loyalties are fractured.  Julissa's tenuous world spirals down.  When Julissa finds out she'll be moving back home to Minnesota, she panics and convinces Aaron to allow her to accompany him to the Sacred Rock on Mount Shasta.  It's here where Julissa is forced to release her core-life to Aaron and dies.  Aaron, in turn, carries Julissa into Telos and donates his bone marrow, restoring her with pure Lemurian blood, thus making her a viable candidate for the surface equal. Upon returning from Mount Shasta, Julissa and Aaron are forced to part ways, he returning below to Telos to heal, she remaining topside.  Depressed and suicidal, Julissa searches for answers and finds them in a gang known as the Sons and Daughters of Belial, genetic Lemurians turned Atlanteans, ruled by the goddess, Nani Doris.  Lacking Aaron's guidance on how to manipulate and control her life-force energy while discovering she's been embodied with the Holy Grail for healing, Julissa turns to the materialistic, power-hungry world of the Atlanteans to salve her loss and to come to terms with her notoriety.  When Julissa discovers she's being targeted for defilement or death by Nani Doris, she reassesses her choice and returns home to her mother, only to find her life obliterated. Although considered ignorant and inferior (ignor-inferus) and emotionally incapable of controlling life-force energy, Julissa is the Lemurians' best option for survival.  The Lemurians want Julissa to come to Telos to marry Aaron and produce the offspring HeIs, who will carry on the Lemurian DNA and rule the New World. Little of her surface life appeals to Julissa, as many of those she's loved have died.  Julissa now faces a choice: remain topside to be obliterated with the rest of humanity in the coming apocalypse or escape to Telos to fulfil her new destiny as the savior of the Lemurian race.       

A maligned and shamed teenager transforms into our planet's only hope for salvation. In Telos, the city buried beneath Mount Shastina, the remnant DNA strain of the Lemurian race is at its end. On the earth's surface, world apocalypse looms. A surface-equal – a virgin with virtuous heart and pure blood – must be found to stave off extinction of the Lemurian race before life on earth is obliterated. The Lemurians believe they have found her – sixteen-year-old Julissa Grant. With nothing left topside to hold her, the maligned and shamed Julissa makes her choice and follows the cousins into Telos.  As of yet, she is unproven and considered by many of the Lemurian council a mismatch for Aaron.  To prove otherwise, Julissa and Aaron are tested as avatars, walking Songline to see if they're compatible and capable of working together.  Burdened with three serious flaws, greed, anger, and ignorance, Julissa fails miserably with detriment to Aaron.  Julissa reluctantly agrees to return topside.  But Paragon, the leader of the Lemurians offers her a chance to redeem herself by entering the Discovery Tunnel.  Here she's challenged by a series of self-discovery tasks by Jungo, the last of the little people.  While learning singlemindedness and with time ticking down before Armageddon's Killshot is fired, will Julissa conquer her inner demons?  Or lose her place in the New World to one of her competitors?  

A maligned and shamed teenager transforms into our planet's only hope for salvation. The Solstice book series is nothing like I have ever enjoyed reading before. The story of Jules from her humble beginnings to her foretold end is inspiring. Fans of Stephanie Meyer will immediately want to dive into this series. This book is a great read at twilight or dawn or midday. There is the potential aspect that the story could be only akin to Bobby stepping out of the shower. The reader will have to determine how these stories appeal to them. If you are a fan of Suzanne Collins, then this book series is for you too. The constant keeping the reader on edge generates a hunger that feels like a game. The books are a sweeping saga seemingly about love. The love of Aaron and Julissa or is it the love of peace? What is the price of peace and what will you have to put up with or give up before reaching that goal? Read this incredible series and determine that for yourself. Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien will also love this series. I will be shocked if Apple+ doesn't come knocking to create a new tv show out of this series.  N.N. Light