The Map Stick - The First Journey

by Alp Mortal

The Map Stick – The First Journey is the first three parts of The Map Stick series.

In part one, The Map Stick, Rane leaves his tribe to find answers. He is shunned by his people and his father is absent; no one will speak to him. He travels and happens across a valley where he stays to hunt and he meets War. War was abandoned in the valley as a child. Rane finds a stick that is carved and it looks like a map to a mountain cavern that holds a star and a fire. They wait out the Winter and then leave, determined to find the cavern and answers to their questions.

In part two, The Seeing Stone, Rane and War continue in their quest and hold to the path drawn on the map stick. In this part of the story, they meet their 'protectors'. The men are separated for a time and War is injured. The consequences of the injury will bring about the greatest change and the biggest test of their love for each other.

In part three, The Obsidian Eyed Hunter, the hunters find the cavern under the mountain. How they got there and what they find are nothing like they imagined, and perhaps, nothing like you were expecting either!

This is a love story. Neither hunter has loved before, neither has the vocabulary to describe it but love each other they most assuredly do. The journey is a metaphor for love and relationships as much as it is about a quest to find answers to questions and maybe ultimately to discover something amazing.

I am always very happy to receive your feedback. If you wish to contact me directly, please email me at: alpmortal@hotmail.com.

Visit the website, www.alpmortal.weebly.com, for updates on the next gay romantic story or crime thriller which I am working on.

Thank you,
Alp Mortal

Genres: M M Romance

240 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 10, 2013

About the author

I'm English by birth, from the Isle of Wight, living in Newport, spending part of the year in the USA, co-managing The Carter Seagrove Project LLC - an independent publishing house, incorporated in the State of Indiana.

I was 51 years old in 2016. I only started writing in 2009, proving, I suppose, that it is never too late. I didn't think about publishing until late 2012, now, nearly four years later, I'm even more energized by the process than ever before.

I'm a qualified English teacher, specializing in teaching English as a second language (TEFL), though I don't do much of that now. In the distant past, I taught software skills. In the very distant past, I was a project manager on big IT projects and at the very beginning of my career, I was an Internal Auditor. I have degrees in Internal Auditing, Computer Auditing and Project Management. I'm studying for my degree in Sustainable Development at the moment. Renewable energy is what really interests me.

I'm a member of The Society of Authors, The Society for Editors and Proofreaders and The Independent Author Network.

I have no great philosophy except "energy follows intention" and "honour your gifts". These two principles keep me sane, very happy and exceedingly busy!

I am always very happy to receive your feedback. If you wish to contact me directly, please email me at: alpmortal@hotmail.com.

Visit the website, alpmortal.weebly.com, for updates on the next gay romantic story or crime thriller that I am working on.

Together with Chambers Mars, I am half of Carter Seagrove, author of Dust Jacket and The Inspector Fenchurch Mysteries.

Alp Mortal, Chambers Mars, Shannon M. Kirkland and Morgan Starr are The Carter Seagrove Project LLC - an independent book publisher. Find us at www.carterseagrove.weebly.com, on Twitter @carterseagrove and on Facebook www.facebook.com/thecarterseagrovepro....