Books by Eldon Crowe

The thousand-year Empire of Sammos, the Holy Mother of Cities, is dying. The Krahl, sublime ruler of the pagan Odrum, has encircled its once-glittering capital, Sammkos, on both land and sea and is ready to deliver the last, killing blow. And now it seems that Fate has chosen a wounded, betrayed, fearful man to gather what scant hope remains in the beleaguered City. For Agriabus, Prefect of the Purple, has suffered the unendurable betrayal of his own son, who has wounded him in an impetuous duel before fleeing to the Krahl, must confront an increasingly mad Lord Engineer who wants to find salvation only in ancient, dark arts, and try to steel an Emperor who can only abase himself within the Shrine of Sammos, surrounded by flickering shadows, and past failures.And time is running out.

It's the early 22nd century and Earth is ravaged by a spreading, lethal inundation of radioactivity. The World Council, unable to deal with the situation, gives way to the dictatorial Collective, a nebulous and arbitrary body of scientists and bureaucrats who, alone, possess the means to save what is left of humanity by choosing who will leave the dying planet in a massive, global 'Launch' - to a heretofore unknown 'Network' of orbiting space stations.Now, a generation later, the human survivors of the Network cling to life in the face of a finite supply of food and energy. But they may have found a way out - a Doorway through space.Dr. Mariss Arlen Keppeler, whose father's particle emitter has proven to be the Key to this astral door, must now convince Newton Idris, the Network's autocratic Director and one-time rival of her father, and the rest of the 'suits and coats' (as she calls them) who rule the Network, to allow her to follow upon the heels of Alpha, the first crewed mission through the doorway. That ship had been captained by her husband, Brayton, and has not been seen or heard from in eleven long months.Resources are scant and finally Mariss is allowed to go - in only a one-man Scout - to find out what happened to Alpha and, if necessary, to complete its mission; to find another home for a humanity losing hope - beyond the Portal.

The Fall has come, changing everything that Adam and Eve have ever known. Now they have been exiled from Eden, their idyllic and beautiful home, and thrust out into a much larger and harsher world. Here they must eke out a new life in the mountains shadows, among the fields where they have gathered some sheep for shearing and milking and have planted hardy crops of millet and barley. It is a difficult existence, and even as they teach their sons, Akah-Nah and Habeh-Lah, and their daughter, Hazuh-Rah, about the lost joys of the Beginning Place in regular remembrances and cling to a desperate hope that God may yet allow them to return, they are confronted by new fears. In the east, there is a vast, open, unknown land, which the mountains do not cut off and which may hold a frightening secret: a challenge to their own views of themselves and of their unique place in the world. In the west looms a foreboding forest, separating them from Eden, and perhaps holding a secret of its ownthe new dwelling place of their old enemy who deceived them in the Garden. In this stark, new reality, feelings grow strong and sharp. And soon one brother turns against another with consequences unimaginable for a familyand even a worldthat is Fallen.

Something Bad lurks in the fields and amongst the trees of the Garden where Hadah-Muh and Ahah-Wah have lived in harmony with all the Animals and tended the fruits and the vegetables something not Good. Habbah-Ah, He Who dwells in the Beyond above and Who sometimes comes to walk with them in the Garden has warned them of it. But they have forgotten. And now everything that is Good in this new, young, beautiful World is threatened. For Anah-Hashah, their Nemesis who has so patiently stalked them and plotted his revenge against them is, at last, about to strike. He has fed and nurtured but one goal in his spiteful heart through all of the passing Days in this Garden of Life: to open the way toward Death; to cause the Man and the Woman to Fall.