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Venom of Choice is a haunting gothic novel of faith, desire, and transformation, told through the voice of a monk whose life becomes legend. Set within a remote monastery steeped in ritual and silence, the story follows Brother Cuthbert, an apothecary whose quiet devotion is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious novice. As bonds deepen and tensions rise, ancient knowledge, creeping dread, and the weight of unseen forces begin to fracture the fragile world around them. Blending historical richness with supernatural unease, Venom of Choice explores the dangerous edge where love, belief, and the unknown converge—and asks what it truly means to choose between salvation and surrender.

In the aftermath of a hard-won and costly victory, a French crusader named Aymar rides with his cohort in pursuit of Saladin’s retreating army. But when a markman with deadly aim leaves Aymar, the band’s lone survivor, in pursuit of the sultan, Aymar is left alone beneath a merciless sky, cut off from the world he knows.

On the edge of death, he discovers a hidden passage beneath the sand, one that leads not to safety, but to a buried palace where something ancient waits.

Deep below the desert, a being of fire sits bound by a forgotten sorcery. The djinn offers Aymar a bargain: complete a task in the ruins nearby, and he will be granted wealth, survival, and a path home.

But the desert keeps its secrets.

As Aymar ventures into the remnants of a lost city, he encounters the lingering force of older empires and the shadow of a man whose ambition defied death itself. What begins as a desperate struggle to survive becomes a journey into a world where power is older than faith, and where the line between salvation and ruin is perilously thin.

Son of Fire is a haunting historical fantasy where crusade and myth collide, and where the stories we carry may outlive us all.

In a world held together by ritual and memory, the island of Thera stands at the center of a fragile balance between land, sea, and the unseen powers that govern both. Here, priestesses walk into the waves and return changed, Minotaurs carry the weight of sacred knowledge, and kings rule through alignment with a living order.

Aletes is raised within this world, certain of its permanence. When he is sent to Crete for initiation into the ancient bull cult, he enters its spiritual center at the palace of Knossos. There he witnesses a quiet fracture. Asterion, the last of the Minotaurs, refuses to uphold a rising king who claims authority through domination under Zeus. His defiance leads to his imprisonment in the sacred caves beneath the palace, an act that will later be remembered as the birth of a monster.

When Aletes returns home, Thera has already begun to change. A mainland envoy arrives with measured demands for tribute, speaking in the language of order and inevitability, while a priestess returns from the sea disturbed, claiming she witnessed a negotiation between Zeus and Poseidon. Rituals falter. The ground shifts. The world Aletes trusted moves toward something unfamiliar.

As the island approaches its final, catastrophic end, what survives is reshaped in the telling. The man becomes a beast. The priestess becomes a witch. The fall of a civilization becomes legend. Told from the perspective of one who lived through it, this is a vision of Atlantis, less a fantasy than the memory of a world that once existed, and could not endure.