Three Impossible Tasks

by Susan Lyttek

With the new ability to create portals, Subja's scientists unleash vicious and ravenous beasts on the population of Telba. Bern, Garth, Ne-tel are each given separate tasks to complete on their own. Bern must convince Telantia to emerge from the safety of the city and fight for the citizens of Telba. Garth must take technology from Subja's fortress. Ne-tel must travel to the Gold Coast to raise an army. All three must succeed if Telba is to have hope for a future, but even Prophet Nevv says these tasks are impossible.

140 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 19, 2024

About the author

At the tender age of six, calamity struck Susan Lyttek’s childhood home. Actually, the television died and her educator parents who’d just purchased their first home didn’t have the funds to replace it. Thus, she began reading to find escape and solace in story worlds like Narnia, Earthsea, and Prydain, or adventures with Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys.
Later, after told the mystery she wanted to check out from the library with “talking mice, fish, and fairies” didn’t exist, she decided to write the stories she wanted to read. She’s been doing exactly that ever since.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, that means her work crosses genres and formats: from mystery to fantasy, flash fiction to novels, poetry to plays, and magazine articles to devotionals. If it intrigues her, she will write about it!
A diehard supporter of the homeschool community, writing teacher and coach to multiple generations of homeschooled students, she believes that educational paths are by choice, not obligation.
Married to the man who dated her on a bet when they were both teenagers, she chooses to treat life as an adventure and does at least one thing each year that scares her. Why should her characters have all the fun?
Author of the Portal Watchers of Telba YA fantasy series and the Talbott Family mystery series, both with Pelican Book Group, she currently self-publishes her Biblical poetry collections and keeps a weekly blog going on her website.

Reviews

[Karen Malley · Rating 5 out of 5]

In this, the fourth installment of the Portal Watchers series, the three watchers are sent out on their own individual missions for Tel. Missions which are said to be impossible, and may cost one or more of them their lives. With the evil queen bringing terrifying creatures through her own portals, is anyone in Telantia safe? Another great read from author Susan Lyttek which will leave you excited for the next book in the series!

[Clare Revell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sat and read in one sitting. It’s so good. Though it does need a spider warning. I may have skipped those chapters. The three portal watchers are each given a task in this instalment and rather than working together they have to work alone. But help comes in unexpected forms.