Book: Journeyers

*Journeyers: Book One & Book Two* — on sale now! // Books2Read links: Book One + Book Two | all major ebookers // 🎨Cover art by Goran Gligović

Howdy, friendly neighborhood writer Dylan here. *Journeyers* is on sale now, my debut duology of epic fantasy novels! The story is about 4 oddball heroes traveling across the mystical Spiral Forest where animals wield language like magick and the kingdom of Man falls into civil war. A boy, snake, monkey, and bird must venture to the castle in the center of the spiral, where the final turns of fate await. Please read my advanced pitch below and I hope you consider buying my pair of books.✌️

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Book cover: Journeyers: Book Two Author = Dylan Orosz The four journeyers prepare for battle in the palm of a Magician’s hands. A boy with sword, shield, and bow crouches next to a martial monkey, a spy snake, and a bird diplomat. They face off against a shapeshifting cat, a Knight with a burning sword, and a kingdom at civil war. A druid and spirit wolf sit under a stolid king and rebel queen wielding bow and arrow. A shadowy cloaked figure looms over a castle, with yellow eyes and the elemental sigils on his fingers. A giant tree snakes through the cosmos above and overwatches the whole grand saga. Art by Goran Gligović

Title: Journeyers: Book One & Book Two
Form: Duology of novels ~ 400 pages & 600 pages
Genre: Epic Fantasy x Action-Adventure x Sword & Sorcery
Target Audience: teens+ / fans of Redwall, Legend of Drizzt, Hunter x Hunter
🎨Cover art by Goran Gligović

Main Characters:
✋Apo, the boy adventurer seeking his lost sister
🐍Ouro, the snake spy undercover for the Queen
🐒Rakar, the monkey monk who does not remember his past
🕊️Isidi, the bird bard from a city in the sky

Premise: *JOURNEYERS* is a story about the fantastique of nature. Within the Spiral Forest, animals wield magic like language and resist the empire of Mankind, residing in the heart of the Spiral Castle. Apo is an adventurous human boy entering the forest for the first time to find and rescue his sister, taken from his outside village as a babe. Ouro is a spy snake for the rebel Queen who guerilla fights her ex-husband, the King, from the wilderness of the trees. Rakar is a childlike amnesiac monkey as tough as the core of the earth, searching for his lost tribe and the truth of his origins. Isidi is a bird diplomat from Birdkind’s mysterious city in the sky, come to seek the redemption of a saga she may call her own. Together, these four characters join as one, forming at first as a team to challenge the mystical dangers of the forest, and later as a family journeying deep into historical converse and interpersonal soul descents.

Our 4 journeyers meet as one to travel across the forest seemingly by happenstance. They interact with hidden motives that become clearer with every encounter; they begin by forming collective routines and getting a lay of the land – and each other’s capabilities. They battle enemies in the form of Novashaska, shapeshifting big cat and apex predator in the Spiral Forest, a quatro of mercenary hunters working for the King, a trio of freelancing assassins working for themselves, and various monstrous creatures known as wyrewolves, krykens, and ptyros. They aid allies such as the Mouse and Bat clan, some Bears, Rabbits, and Foxes, river Otters and traveling troupes of Monkey fighters. They learn of The Magician, the King’s most diabolical advisor, mad scientist, and true ruler of the realm; they battle his son Ser Sleude in an epic showdown of their combined might.

Our 4 journeyers learn of the Spiral Forest’s harrowing history, from the time of Elves and Giants and Dragons. All gone now, and nearly forgotten, it is only Ouro’s special knowledge that educates and the secret locales they explore which reveal hidden truths. What caused Giantkind to chase Mankind into the forest? How did the Elves originally discover and harness magic? Why did Man and Elf join together in the creation of the Dragon? Where are the Elven histories? Who has Man become today, all these clashing civilizations behind him, so many animals in opposition, the forest spiraling chaotically around his iron will within the wood? These questions and more become answerable only by following the spiral path alongside our 4 intrepid journeyers. They traverse vast forestry, swampland, hills and groves, the Søren River, one mystic Tower, and the subterranean caverns of a hollowing earth, meeting many strange friends and foes along the way.

Altogether, *Journeyers* is a mystic action-adventure featuring four inquisitive heroes seeking the horizons of truths and interconnections within such a fantastical natural world. Environmentalism, the magic of animals, the power of storytelling, and uncovering true history are some key themes & messages.

At the castle in the center of the spiral, the fate of the forest ~ and our journeyers ~ will be realized.