The Lost Gate (sample chapters)

CHAPTER 1 -- HOMECOMING Geltharin pulled his cloak a little closer about himself pulling his hood up over his dark brown hair as he made his way from the stables, leaving his beloved steed Windfoot, a dark chestnut colored horse, to munch on a dinner of... More

CHAPTER 1 -- HOMECOMING Geltharin pulled his cloak a little closer about himself pulling his hood up over his dark brown hair as he made his way from the stables, leaving his beloved steed Windfoot, a dark chestnut colored horse, to munch on a dinner of oats and hay. His light-blue gaze took in the full moon just rising above the rim of the world, as he turned toward the house where he had been raised since he was a small child. It was not often that he was able to come back home, and his father knew he would be arriving today, yet no one came out to greet him, and the house was dark. ‘Perhaps they have already gone to bed. ’ He thought. After all they would have been expecting him in the early afternoon. He inwardly cursed the broken horseshoe that he had to replace at a local Blacksmith along the way, that delay had caused him to miss what would certainly have been a fabulous meal. Even without the promise of one of his mother’s home-cooked meals, the sight of the old two story Less