The Lost Garden (The Lost Garden Trilogy Book 1) - Plot & Excerpts
From the base of a massive, rock-encrusted mountain, General Del’ada Donatte crawls up onto a sunbaked boulder. He seeks a higher vantage point to discern anything green in the expansive desert that is supposed to contain an oasis, according to his flawed maps. The stone scorches his already-blistered hands, but he pays it little mind. What concerns Donatte is that his last twelve men are painfully dying of thirst and sunstroke. Succumbing to the same fate, he stands shakily upon the rock and shades his eyes against the glare. There is no wind, not even at this height. He can hear his own pulse in his ears, thumping hard from the rock climb. And from age. Heat waves shimmer off the desert floor with sparkles that mock him with a distant sea that does not exist. It is clear from the bleak surroundings that he and his men are alone in an empty wasteland. Days ago, a nomadic shepherd had warned them that this land was cursed and that caravans had long ago learned to avoid it.
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