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The Chaos Formula: A Dark, Contemporary Fantasy
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If Zeth, the servant of her enemies the Shadow Giants, defeats Jaxon in battle, the
and destroy humanity.
Every night Jaxon experiences vivid recurring dreams in which,
How come
And why does a strange man
to take the young woman to a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River during the next full moon?
Jaxon works as head trader for a small money management business. His boss tells him she came up with a sure-fire trading system,
Her test account verifies a
Jaxon can't believe. Stock market results form a random, bell-shaped curve. Perhaps
Yet this ability of his boss to foretell stock market results constitutes just one sign of
What compels Jaxon to spend his evenings staring up at the moon, even to the point
Every night, he dreams he wields a bronze sword ten thousand years in the past, at the mouth of the Nile River, long before the pyramids.
The other soldiers call him Blood Reaper.
One night the king assigns him to take a young woman far upriver, for a sacrifice.
A strangely beautiful woman,
She must travel to where bluffs overlook the Nile River, protected only by Blood Reaper --
Jaxon does not understand why the sacrifice takes place so far from the temples, but he must obey his king. He figures a wealthy merchant wishes to sacrifice an ex-mistress to gain merit with the gods instead of just selling her to a brothel.
When she reveals her true identity as the
, he does not believe . . .
How and why does his boss's daughter, Laura Ewing, dream the same story, only as the woman?
And how can he and Laura use
Why does Mr. bin Hasad, the small, dapper foreigner keep visiting Jaxon on his job even though he doesn't open up a trading account? And Jaxon can't remember what they discuss?
How did
from Ken, the Romani and Bosnian refugee who runs the largest occult bookstore in the New World, when Keith claims he stopped dealing drugs?
Why does
Blood Reaper's story comes to a conclusion on top of the cliff overlooking the Nile River.
Who lives? Who dies?
Do the Shadow Giants overwhelm life on Earth with chaos and destruction?
86,000 words.
This paranormal fantasy adventure combines stories from ten thousand years ago -- a nitty gritty historical dark fantasy -- with a contemporary dark fantasy in the modern world. A form of urban fantasy as well.