The Inward Light

Some light only shines inward.

Hunter Black writes bestsellers. He doesnt make them up. Every story comes to him in dreams so vivid that he drinks himself senseless each night just to make them stop.

Then a little girl vanishes from her mothers arms right in front of him, and a stranger in a robe steps out of thin air to tell him the dreams were never dreams at all.

Bonnie is seven and a half, and she carries a power the universe hasnt seen in centuries. Something on a sealed red world wants her. So do the Watchers sworn to protect her. And above them all, the Gods who once answered to the Goddess DHarmaSan have begun to wonder what they might become with her gone.

To bring Bonnie home, Hunter will have to put down the bottle, stop running, and finally face the light he has spent his whole life hiding. Because his doesnt shine outward like everyone elses.

It shines in.

The Inward Light is the first of the Tales of the Eternal Cycle, the companion novels to The Light Bringer. It can be read on its own.