But the Questers, guided by sacrifice and bound by love, cross into a realm where only the dead are usually permitted. There, everything is inverted—landscapes breathe, flowers see, and archetypes take form in creatures vast or small.
As they race against the Sorcerer to reach the hidden center of the Flower of Life, the Questers must navigate a spirit-dimension where beauty can become peril, and where each choice echoes across worlds.
A mythic journey that bridges Earth and the transcendent, Flower Amid the Devastation explores how the battles of the soul are fought not only in flesh and blood, but in the invisible places—where unexpected allies rise and love becomes the way through.
The author, having recently completed a generational history of Ancestral Pueblo History and an analysis of markings on a stone based on Eastern Woodland Cosmology, brings this awareness to help create a fantasy world. He also makes use of his familiarity with symbolic worlds through his work on dreams and presenting archetypes of Western cultures in courses he has taught. Increasingly, the author feels immersed in a "flow," in which he sees his work as a collaboration between the universe and reader. He has enjoyed the challenge of creating an epic fantasy, filled with action and based on an alternative cosmology, which he now invites the reader to join.