Julea Payton's Books and Stories
THE ENFORCER
What happens if hiding is your only chance to survive? Gwen and Scott are faced with that reality everyday since the new Republic took jurisdiction. Moving about won't keep them safe when Gwen is caught running away from danger. Is the Enforcer she meets an enemy? As the hunted, they'll soon know. Those of the Republic want dissenters, and they take few prisoners. The Enforcer plays a dangerous game. Will the runaways die as the Republic's ultimate pawn, or can they find their freedom?
THE SUNDERING
TWO QUEENS. TWO WORLDS. ONE WAR IMPENDING BETWEEN THEM. In a realm gleaming with perpetual light, there is a portal to the world’s mirror land. Sebastian of Zelal, the Queen Regent’s Assassin, knows the stories. He always believed they were a lie. He's about to find out for certain. The Regent wants full control, even at the expense of her son, who has yet to ascend the throne. Sebastian is given the mission to find the portal and get to its other side. Retrieving the Regent’s sister, he must leave his future bride and wander into lands unknown, not knowing if he will live or die. In doing so, perhaps the Regent will gain the glory she desires. The queen’s sister isn't what she seems to be, and neither are the inhabitants of the mirroring land. Sebastian fears that all he bypassed as night-time tales is true. Who are the Ancients, and what will happen to him, and the two realms should they arrive? He hopes never to find out. Time is ticking. The second gate is waiting to open, with fiendish powers and monstrous things fighting him along the way. War is coming. Goddess forbid the two queens should have their way. Light unto darkness, and darkness unto light… what is mortal man against a force as old as humanity?
