Light & Dark: Greyknight

Book excerpt: Returning from a less than magical year at the White Rock Academy of Illumination, which resulted in a friend’s death, the loss of a powerful Shadow weapon, the Black Bonded, and the continued perceived betrayal of those he trusts, Danny Firoth finds himself torn between the competing ideals of the Light and his own. Given the magnitude of the ongoing clash between the forces of Light and the forces of Dark, Danny finds the scale of high school trifles rather trivial in comparison. Reinforcing this viewpoint, his fears become all too real as the ancient battle between the Light and the Dark spills directly into the halls of the school. Danny is confronted with a new threat, wielding the very weapons he tried so desperately to keep from falling into the Shadows’ hands, Black Bondeds. In the face of this new threat, Danny and his friends must work alongside a new kind of ally, those of the Grey, the Greyknights. Unsure of these new would-be allies, Danny struggles in his continued effort to unravel the chronicle of the Mageknight and his place as the aspirant savior in the battle to come as the Shadow threat seems to grow to a culminating level. Faced with the overreaching shade of the Shadows, Danny must face a question that has been pending for quite some time, to embrace the lies of the Light and the falsehood of his prophesized role or betray their principles for the good of what is to come. Light and Dark: Greyknight is the third book in the Light and Dark Series, a continuing sequence of epic fantasy, adventure novels that combine new elements of science fiction, scientific theories and technology, and a mythological connection to legend, lore, and religion to an already thrilling world of formidable villains and gallant heroes, magic, super-powered action, and spell-casting escapades, exploring a fresh militaristic setting while adding the continued tradition of appealing characters, fictional and non-fictional locals, and an enchanted cast of races.