If you're a fan of Lord of the Rings, Avatar, Star Wars and Robin Hood etc then you'll love Tales of Roumanhi, Homequest: Liberation with over 400 exciting pages of adventure as opposing sides struggle for freedom and supremacy.
T'skya is young, inexperienced and expendable when she is sent to Roumanhi from the Homequest, a vast spaceship that is coming to the end of its functional life; her duty to secure a new home for her people. Heading for a city, she crashes in the desert, only to wake up in an ancient forest on the wrong side of the mountains with a spear in her flesh, surrounded by hostile Roumanhi forest dwellers who think she is an enemy.
She soon learns that the dwellers from Wilderwood enclave have good reason to hate and fear the race now dominating their lives. Their families have been split up, their people brutalised and enslaved, their treasured land ravaged and plundered and their monarchy slaughtered. The natives with spears and arrows are no match for the more advanced enemy with their blasters and laser cannon.
Eventually T'skya formulates a dangerous plan to secure Roumanhi freedom, endangering those closest to her and leading to revelations that change all their lives.
Liberation is a tale of heroic sacrifice, of tragic loss and passionate desire, of ancient races and peculiar creatures, of treasured mythology and warfare. It is the story of a group of diverse people, both friend and foe, who share a goal - Liberation.
1st review: 26 July 2010 'The descriptions of the lands and characters bring the story alive, with interesting twists and turns, leaving me impatient for the next book in the series. Well worth the read and an excellent 'first' for the author.' Rosemary W.
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JE Browning sat on a Wiltshire hillside as a child and stared at a naturally created amphitheatre imagining a fight scene, a battle of survival - a young man showing his courage against the odds. This image never faded.
JE began writing the Tales of Roumanhi, Homequest series in 1992 when living and teaching in Greece, determined to see what happened to the man in that image. Unable to stop writing, the lives of T'skya, Hollam, Cail, and all the other characters and creatures from Roumanhi and beyond continue their battles in forthcoming novels.
Following time as a police officer, JE now trains and exercises people to respond to major emergencies helping keep the public of Wiltshire, England, safe. JE is also a Kickboxing and TaeKwon-Do Instructor, keen traveller, scuba diver, nature lover, science fiction/fantasy fan, and artist.
T’skya began to stir. Her sun damaged face, raw and soiled, contorted into a scowl, aging her otherwise youthful brow. Images of harsh impact and tortuous heat, desperate incapacitating thirst and terror swirled around her head like a vortex, threatening to engulf her. She struggled and clawed through schizophrenic nightmares towards the safety of consciousness, aided by a sudden stabbing pain in the centre of her chest. Her eyes sprang open and she quailed.
Three tall, cloaked and hooded figures, each brandishing an archaic weapon stood before her. A long flint-tipped spear was pinning her painfully against the gnarled and knotted bark of an ancient tree.
T’skya stared up wide eyed not daring to move, desperately trying to master her fear; desperately trying to comprehend. None of it made sense! She was meant to be in the sprawling city across the mountains but her recollections ended in the furnace of a hostile desert; her ship destroyed and all hopes gone, then falling, darkness, nothing. How in the hell had she come to be sitting in a cold, damp forest with a spear in her flesh?
T’skya fervently wished she had stayed on board the Mothership. It was not fair! She was just an environmental analyst and had only recently passed her atmospheric entry examinations. But the situation on board was dire and she was duly expendable, and now it seemed her life was in jeopardy before she had accomplished anything.