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The Etera Chronicles
The Etera Chronicles
Series ·
17
books · 2019-2022
By
Leigh Roberts
Books in series
#1
Khon'Tor's Wrath
2019
What If... A long time ago, in order to avoid extinction, the ancient Sasquatch interbred with the humans. What if... The community repopulated, and lived in peace and harmony with all creation for generation after generation—until the compassionate act of their Healer set it all on end. Coming across an abandoned infant, the Healer Adia rescues a forbidden Outsider child and brings it back to their underground community, Kthama. When the Leader returns from a council meeting and finds what she has done, he takes her compassionate act as an affront to his authority and a threat to the People's welfare. She was prepared for him to be angry. She was prepared for him to punish her. But she was not prepared for Khon'Tor's Wrath.
#2
The Healer's Mantle
2019
What if... A long time ago... Recovering from the Leader's punishment for her defiancé, the Healer moves forward raising the Outsider child as best she can. When unforseen consequences of Khon'Tor's wrath materialize, Adia turns to the People's High Council for help. What if... Instead of receiving mercy and wisdom, she is forced to make a terrible choice—one no woman should ever have to make. Struggling under the cruelty of the High Council's judgment, only the presence of the People's High Protector, Acaraho, brings her any comfort. But the fire that warms, also burns. Forbidden to mate, she prepares to live a life of unsatisfied longing for the compelling, virile, man she has fallen in love with. But can she live with her choice? Or will she set aside a Healer's calling to fulfill a woman's dream? A dream she surrendered long ago, when she accepted The Healer's Mantle.
#3
Oh'Dar's Quest
2019
What if
...under the protective care of the Healer, the only mother he has ever known, the Outsider child is now a young man who desires above all to belong. But Oh’Dar is not of the People. And Oh’Dar is not of the Brothers. The blood of brutal Outsiders runs through his veins. What If…tormented, he leaves the safety of Kthama to search for his roots—leaving behind the only family and the only world he has ever known. Seeking the Outsiders as he sets out on Oh’Dar’s Quest.
WARNING:
This series contains violence and sexual situations. If those offend you please do not buy this book.
#4
The Healer's Blade
2019
What If
...the Healer Adia has survived it all; the wrath of the Leader Khon'Tor, the injustice of the People's High Council, her forbidden longing for the High Protector Acaraho. But will a final wrong push her over the edge? Breaking the resolve that has carried her silence over the years? The resolve to protect, at her own expense, the people she loves? Wisdom says there is a time to wield the sword and a time to lay it down. Which will it be, when Adia holds
The Healer's Blade
?
#5
Contact
2020
What If
...Justice delivered, the Healer's Blade at her feet, Adia finally faces a future filled with the hope of new beginnings. But destiny has other plans, and the wheels of providence turn again, this time unearthing a past the People believed was long gone and buried. While sickness and conflict threaten to take from Adia all she holds most dear, she must find the strength to guide and protect those she loves.
What If
...the time has come to make
Contact
.
#6
Revelation
2020
What If… Long-held beliefs about their origin, their true relationship with the Sarnonn, and the role of the Ancients are shattered by voices from the past. As Adia deals with the Sarnonn sickness, which has spread throughout Kthama, tension builds as Khon’Tor’s son who demands his place as heir to the leadership of High Rocks. What If… Time is running out, and the High Council must soon decide the course of the People or face inevitable extinction. But will the Sarnonn prove to be their salvation—or their downfall? Everything is at risk, as Adia and her people grapple with the sins of the past and the specters of impossible choice...in Revelation.
#7
The Edge of The Age
2020
What if...The Sarnonn Leader, Haan, battles as his community at Kayerm splits over his decision to open Kthama Minor, sealed by the ancients thousands of years ago—the birthplace of Wrak-Wavara, the Age of Darkness. Meanwhile, at Kthama itself, the promise of new life brings joy to the People, but the Healer's heart is burdened by a premonition of tragedy. The growing tension between Khon'Tor and his son finally reaches a breaking point. Denied his heritage as heir to the leadership of the People of the High Rocks, Akar'Tor devises a plan to exact a terrible price for his father's refusal to give him what he wants. Having returned to Shadow Ridge to resume his life there, Oh'Dar comes close to revealing his mysterious past. And while he finally realizes where his heart truly lies, has he lost his chance for happiness in his delay? Heartbreak, conflict, and joy all vie for the reader's attention in The Edge of The Age.
#8
The Wall of Records
2020
What If… The mysteries of the ages are finally laid open to the People of High Rocks. Engaging the power of the Aezaitera, the life force of the Great Spirit, Haan and his forty Sarnonn followers open Kthama Minor. As they disturb the dust of thousands of years, the leaders of High Rocks move reverently through the underground chambers until they come upon the legendary Wall of Records—the complete accounting of the sins of the Ancients, the Fathers-of-Us-All. Contained in the record carved into the cavern walls lies the shame of Wrak-Wavara, the Age of Darkness. But will the confessions of the past show the People the way forward? Or will the truths revealed rock their foundations beyond what their civilization can bear? Change comes hard to the People. Yet only change will save them. Have the answers they seek been waiting for them, preserved on the Wall of Records?
#9
Retribution
2020
What If... Dark clouds are forming. The Sarnonn rebels, seduced by Hakani's stories of the comparative ease of life at High Rocks, eye Kthama with jealousy. Akar's abduction of Tehya continues to haunt her, affecting her health and Khon'Tor vows to end the problem of his estranged son once and for all. Meanwhile, crimes from the past, long concealed, are now revealed before the High Council with devastating consequences. Wisdom says there is a time to wield the sword and a time to lay it down. The time has finally come for debts to be paid, in Retibution. Retribution is the ninth book in the series The Etera Chronicles. Series One will be followed by Series Two and Three in the continuing saga of The People; their tumultous past and their uncertain future.
#11
The Edge of Hope
2021
What If… Pajackok and Snana return to the Brothers' village, unnerved by the Waschini riders entering their camp, carrying threats of taking the land on which the Brothers depend. Oh’Dar also returns from his journey to Shadow Ridge to find Acise pregnant with their child, and continues his quest to weave the remnants of his multiple pasts into one future. What if… Asked by Grayson Stone Morgan III to render help to the Webbs, Newell Storgis, the Morgan’s attorney, sets out for Wilde Edge and makes a startling discovery. One that sets him on a mission fueled by questionable motives and with an indeterminate outcome. What if... Fulfilling a promise made by the High Council, Khon’Tor sets out from the Far High Hills with several of Harak’Sar’s men to try to discover the fate of U’Kail, the missing offspring abducted by Berak. What if… Worlds rent apart by the sins of the past are brought together at the hand of Pan, the last of the Mothoc Guardians. The Mothoc, the Sarnonn, the People, and the Brothers must now join forces to offset the negative currents set in motion by the Hue’Mahns before they bring about the total destruction of Etera and all her creatures. Encouraged by the prophecy of The Promised One, they stand united—on The Edge of Hope.
Author
Leigh Roberts
Author · 19 books
#12
The Blade of Truth
2022
Some men are wise. Some men are humble. Some men can see their own hand in the troubles that come their way. Snide Tucker was none of those. What If… Bitter over his lot in life, Tucker sets out to destroy the happiness of those around him. When Grace Webb turns away his affections and Newill Storis refuses to succumb to his attempts at blackmail, Tucker stirs up suspicions over the truth behind the deaths of Miss Vivian and her husband Ben. As a result, Acise must face complications with her pregnancy alone when her life-walker is arrested for their murders. Oh’Dar’s only chance of escaping the hangman’s noose hinges on revealing the truth about their deaths. And the existence of the People. What If… As new life enters Etera, shameful secrets are shaken out of hiding. Secrets that have haunted Adia and Acaraho for decades. It is said the truth will set one free—ah, but at what cost? A sharp-edged blade can save or sever. What will happen when time runs out and destiny lets swing the Blade of Truth?
#13
Crossroads
2022
What If… A lone figure of unimaginable size, with silver-white hair glistening in the sun, makes its way across Etera’s verdant hills and valleys—to what destination? And why? It falls to the Guardian, Pan, to determine if this stranger comes as friend or foe, but to do so she must face a part of her past she put far behind her. Oh’Dar. The lost grandson of Grayson Stone Morgan the First and heir to the Morgan fortune. Rescued from certain death by the People’s Healer, Adia, and raised among the People of the High Rocks as one of their own. Life-walker to Chief Is’Taqa’s first daughter. He is about to face his biggest challenge yet. What If… When the Waschini persecution of the Brothers escalates, Oh’Dar is faced with an impossible dilemma. How to save those he loves without also betraying those who have placed their trust in him to keep their existence a secret? Time is running out and only he can decide where his highest loyalty lies—when he stands at the Crossroads. Crossroads is the final book in Series One of The Etera Chronicles. But the story continues with Series Two and Series Three. The first book in Series Two is The Age of Darkness. Then after you have ready Series Two - get ready for Series Three. The first book in Series Three is Reunion.
#15
The Chamber of The Ancients
2021
They survived extinction—but at what cost? What If… The blood of the Ancients, nearly lost, now flows in the veins of their hybrid descendants, the Sassen and the Akassa. But though they share the same past, their futures are destined to diverge. Alone and unprepared... The mantle of leadership lies heaviest on those unprepared to accept its weight. Burdened with a responsibility she did not want, Pan, daughter of Moc’Tor, searches for the answers her heart longs for—answers that lie sealed, out of reach, deep within theChamber of the Ancients. Will the mounting challenges Pan faces prove too much for even her? Or will they spark the fire that Pan so desperately needs to keep her and her people moving forward into the future of their own making? The Chamber of the Ancients is the second book in Series Two of The Etera Chronicles. Lose yourself in a world few could imagine existed.
#16
The Secret of The Leader's Staff
2021
What If… Left unprepared to lead Kthama, her own people divided, Pan struggles to press forward. What If… A series of devastating revelations adds to the burden Pan already carries, when she discovers a rogue community of Mothoc rebels. Embittered by their leader Laborn, they seek the elimination of the Akassa and the Sassen from Etera. And then, just as she is given hope that she may be able to save her father from the fate he chose, it is shattered by a cruel betrayal at the hand of one close to her. Finally, a deep secret is revealed, that someone she thought had returned to the Great Spirit still lives, shaking her entire foundation of what she believed was true. Will these be the final blows from which she cannot arise? What If... Broken and despondent, Pan must still find a way to unite the Ancients and force the reluctant Akassa and Sassen to step into leadership of their own people.
#17
The End of The Age
2021
What would you do… …if the future of everything and everyone you love - and of every creature that crawls on the soil, or swims in the waters or flies through the air – depended on you? What if… …the decisions you made would determine whether the future unfolds towards a path of light, or continues on a downward spiral into death and destruction? How Far Would You Go? Would you defy sacred law? Betray the trust of all who depended on you? Risk being remembered as a traitor to your own kind? What would you sacrifice? To save it all.
#18
Out of the Dust of Etera
2022
What If… The future of everything and everyone you love - and of every creature that crawls on the soil, or swims in the waters or flies through the air – depends on you. What If… The decisions you make will determine whether the future unfolds towards a path of light, or continues on a downward spiral into death and destruction. How Far Would You Go? Would you defy sacred law? Betray the trust of all who depended on you? Risk being remembered as a traitor to your own kind? What would you sacrifice? To save it all.
#19
Reunion
2022
Sometimes, going back is the only way to move forward… What If… Moart’Tor’s world is shaken when he learns there are more of the Ancients still alive than he and the others at the rebel camp called Zuenerth could have imagined. But his great joy at finding a thriving community of Mothoc is tempered by his sadness that his family cannot join him while they are consumed by their hatred of the Akassa and the Sassen. What If… As the brotherhood between the Akassa, the Sassen, and the Brothers deepens, the tensions between the Brothers and the Waschini escalate, and Ned learns the hard way that good will is not always reciprocated. What If… Like a river that, despite its winding path, eventually makes its way home to the sea, so the Order of Functions reunites those separated by time and space - whether they are prepared for it or not - in Reunion. Reunion is the first book in Series Three of The Etera Chronicles. Readers can find Series One and Series Two by searching The Etera Chronicles or visiting Leigh Roberts’ Amazon author page. Enter a world few can imagine exists.
