War destroyed everything they loved. Twenty thousand years ago, the Gryphene had to escape from Earth. The ancients gods had no more value in the life of the modern human populations and they hunted the Gryphene into hiding.Even as the oldest race in the universe, they didn't have the skills to help them face the machines that attacked their new home planet, Xyridia.But there lingered a memory of other Gryphene, who chose to stay and perhaps survived the great war that destroyed Earth.The last words of their queen sent Galen and Richard on an impossible quest to find the Lost Gryphene to save their people from complete annihilation. Despite travelling to every inhabited planet, and making every effort, they were ready to give up hope of finding more of their people.But destiny had different plans for the two men when they crossed paths with the people of Zo'en and Xa'an.While struggling to keep going, Richard was drawn into the politics of the High Order on Zo'en only to realise that love had its own rules in this game.Now alone in the quest, Galen decided to deliver the scrolls of the Gryphene to the library of the Ancients, as the last act to somehow preserve the existence of the Gryphene.Only to have fate step in once again to overthrow his plans. Will his last act be that of a lonely reluctant king or the destiny of a happy man? Teaching herself to read before she went to school was the start of her life-long love affair with books.Trained as an engineer, Linzé has worked as a specialist engineer in two fields of engineering. Thereafter, she was self-employed, working as a consultant to commercial companies exporting their products to other countries.When the economy forced her back into full-time employment, she worked as a systems engineer and senior project manager at a company that designs and manufactures products for the military industry.In January 2019, she left her full-time job to enjoy the challenges of self-employment once more. Now she spends her days doing competence training, career development and retirement coaching, and engineering consulting work.Although she still loves to read, she also enjoys counted stitch embroidery, t'ai chi, archery, fly fishing, drawing, painting with pastels, her husband's medal-winning photographs, and watching Manchester United play.She is one of the moderators of two Facebook writers' groups, and leads the Pretoria Writers' Group, who boasts several published authors in various genres.Linzé Brandon lives in Pretoria, South Africa, with her engineer husband and German Shepherds who are convinced that the world revolves only around them.
