A Break In The Balance

Frank Rhoades is at the end of his rope. With no prospects, no family or friends to speak of, and nowhere to live soon, he trips through life in an alcoholic haze.

Until one morning, he has the most vivid, horrifying hallucination. A seven-foot-plus Black Elf in his apartment, complete with muscles and attitude. Through a mix of persuasion and abuse, the hallucination drags him along into a full-blown nightmare: a meeting with the Creator's agent, and a demi-god dragon in human form, and his Black Elven companion, who also happens to be a Prince of Hell.

He learns more than he ever wanted to know about worlds, and Worlds, and Good and Evil. He is told that he was chosen to represent humanity on a quest to retrieve an artifact. And he was not chosen for any skills or hidden abilities or redeeming qualities. He was chosen almost at random, and because there would be no one to miss him. Life gets better and better, right?

They embark on a trek across a World with a dying sun, and dangers enough, along with the dangers of an ancient evil looking to test them. His companions become not so much creatures of legend as real beings, with personalities: the dragon is good-hearted but slightly neurotic and paranoid, and the Prince of Hell is...surprise...an arrogant, bossy bastard, who Frank finds himself admiring.

At the end, sides are switched, trusts betrayed, and terrible costs are taken. They succeed, despite a heavy price, and Frank learns just how much he himself has grown on this journey. He finally accepts the reality, and even learns to use it to his purpose, and is a hero in his own right, for while he has no magic or unknown martial arts skills or arcane knowledge, he has risked everything to save Worlds, including his own that has tried to ruin him.

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A Break In The Balance

Frank Rhoades is at the end of his rope. With no prospects, no family or friends to speak of, and nowhere to live soon, he trips through life in an alcoholic haze.

Until one morning, he has the most vivid, horrifying hallucination. A seven-foot-plus Black Elf in his apartment, complete with muscles and attitude. Through a mix of persuasion and abuse, the hallucination drags him along into a full-blown nightmare: a meeting with the Creator's agent, and a demi-god dragon in human form, and his Black Elven companion, who also happens to be a Prince of Hell.

He learns more than he ever wanted to know about worlds, and Worlds, and Good and Evil. He is told that he was chosen to represent humanity on a quest to retrieve an artifact. And he was not chosen for any skills or hidden abilities or redeeming qualities. He was chosen almost at random, and because there would be no one to miss him. Life gets better and better, right?

They embark on a trek across a World with a dying sun, and dangers enough, along with the dangers of an ancient evil looking to test them. His companions become not so much creatures of legend as real beings, with personalities: the dragon is good-hearted but slightly neurotic and paranoid, and the Prince of Hell is...surprise...an arrogant, bossy bastard, who Frank finds himself admiring.

At the end, sides are switched, trusts betrayed, and terrible costs are taken. They succeed, despite a heavy price, and Frank learns just how much he himself has grown on this journey. He finally accepts the reality, and even learns to use it to his purpose, and is a hero in his own right, for while he has no magic or unknown martial arts skills or arcane knowledge, he has risked everything to save Worlds, including his own that has tried to ruin him.

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A Break In The Balance

A Break In The Balance

by Carol Bosselman
A Break In The Balance

A Break In The Balance

by Carol Bosselman

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Overview

Frank Rhoades is at the end of his rope. With no prospects, no family or friends to speak of, and nowhere to live soon, he trips through life in an alcoholic haze.

Until one morning, he has the most vivid, horrifying hallucination. A seven-foot-plus Black Elf in his apartment, complete with muscles and attitude. Through a mix of persuasion and abuse, the hallucination drags him along into a full-blown nightmare: a meeting with the Creator's agent, and a demi-god dragon in human form, and his Black Elven companion, who also happens to be a Prince of Hell.

He learns more than he ever wanted to know about worlds, and Worlds, and Good and Evil. He is told that he was chosen to represent humanity on a quest to retrieve an artifact. And he was not chosen for any skills or hidden abilities or redeeming qualities. He was chosen almost at random, and because there would be no one to miss him. Life gets better and better, right?

They embark on a trek across a World with a dying sun, and dangers enough, along with the dangers of an ancient evil looking to test them. His companions become not so much creatures of legend as real beings, with personalities: the dragon is good-hearted but slightly neurotic and paranoid, and the Prince of Hell is...surprise...an arrogant, bossy bastard, who Frank finds himself admiring.

At the end, sides are switched, trusts betrayed, and terrible costs are taken. They succeed, despite a heavy price, and Frank learns just how much he himself has grown on this journey. He finally accepts the reality, and even learns to use it to his purpose, and is a hero in his own right, for while he has no magic or unknown martial arts skills or arcane knowledge, he has risked everything to save Worlds, including his own that has tried to ruin him.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940045784009
Publisher: Carol Bosselman
Publication date: 03/21/2014
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 341 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Carol Bosselman has been working on the Trials of A Demon Prince series since her teen years, loosely based on a gaming character. She has written for theater, including an adaptation of The Hobbit, and her view of how Shakespeare got his ideas in A Bard Dreaming. She is involved in puppetry, creating scripts, puppeteering, and doing voiceovers for Dobbinshire, a children's series that aired on Public Access. She also makes jewelry, miniature marionettes, and has done some illustrations for Trials. She currently lives in upstate NY with Spirit, the cat who is half Labrador, half paper shredder, and half Ninja.

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