From Ashes of Defeat: The Wolves of Trisidian -- Part Three of the Trilogy

Book excerpt: From Ashes of Defeat is the riveting tale about Sir Geoffrey Talbot's courageous attempt to rescue his fiancée, Lady Cortay Louvet, from her captivity and impending death at the Dark Castle in the Land of Trisidian. Geoffrey's agony swells when he finds out his blood brother, Lord William, is planning to offer Cortay as a human sacrifice to the Wolf God Etharo at Trisidian's upcoming barbaric religious ritual on the Day of Shinara. Geoffrey's efforts to rescue Cortay before the supremely critical hour force him to quickly undergo a dangerous, unpredictable journey through an evil land plunged in darkness. From Ashes of Defeat is a stirring drama of test and trial, faith and hope, and the perseverance of a young man as he undergoes great pain and suffering to save his lost love. In the midst of unveiling the obscure beast and darkness of the human heart, a new hero arises when Geoffrey embraces the deep-rooted moral principle that the "power of love is greater than the love of power."