Wings Over Talera

WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE

WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE

In 1914, on a sea voyage to Japan, Ruenn Maclang and his brother Bryce stumbled on a gate to another world—a world named Talera. They were following the trail of some of the vessel’s crew—including their cousin Eric Ryall—who had shipped with them but disappeared. The gate exploded, sucking Ruenn and Bryce through it, but separating them. The first book in this trilogy, Swords of Talera, was Ruenn’s story of what happened to him on the other side of that gate.

Ruenn was cast into the Taleran Sea and rescued by a dwarfish race of humans named the Koro. It wasn’t long, however, before the Koro met the Klar—who were reptiles, pirates, and slavers. Captured by the Klar, Ruenn met a lovely human woman named Rannon Jystral. He found himself attracted to her, but they, too, were separated.

Ruenn learned the discipline of the sword. He learned how to kill. He fought his way free of s*****y and in time gathered a band of warriors around him and ventured to the Klar homeland in search of Rannon, and in hopes of discovering his brother, his cousin, and his shipmates. There, he led a slave revolt and overthrew a nation, but he could not locate any of those he sought from earth. He did find Rannon, and discovered that she was a princess in the distant island kingdom of Nyshphal. But he already loved her, and he told her that. She told him the same.

At the end of Swords of Talera, Ruenn returned to Earth to see about the rest of his family. Though not revealed in that book, Ruenn found his immediate family—parents and two sisters—dead, for decades had passed on our world during his one year absence on Talera. He enlisted the aid of a distant relative to see that money was provided for his sisters’ descendents, and he gave that relative the manuscript for Swords of Talera.

But Talera called. Rannon called. And there was the need in him to find Bryce and Eric, still lost somewhere on that violent yet beautiful new world. This book, Wings Over Talera, is the story of what happens when Ruenn goes back.