The Shield

The Legacy Chronicle #2

by T.H. Paul, Sarah Fensore (Illustrator), Shane Thurston (Editor)

With The Shield, the second volume of T.H. Paul's debut fantasy series, the scope of the threat to the mortal world of Teth-tenir begins to reveal itself. Trem Waterhound and his companions survived the Passage of Cronakarl and arrived in Southron, but they are far from safe. Trem is badly injured, and the others have to navigate the desolate Endless Sands to some form of safety before their limited resources run out. Even should they survive the desert, danger looms to the north. The horde of Broken is descending upon the Order of the Eagle Knights and their castle of Aves. Should their army overwhelm the fortress, the rest of Legocia will surely fall too. With time running out, Trem, Jovanaleth, and the other heroes of Delmore must reach Aves and break the siege, before it is too late.

802 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 9, 2017

About the author

T.H. (Trevor Howard) Paul is a private secondary school literature teacher at Hebron Academy in Hebron, Maine. T.H. has lived most of his life in Maine, though he did attend Wheaton College in Massachusetts and spent time living in Germany and the People’s Republic of China. T.H. started working on the Legacy Chronicle when he was a freshman in high school, tasked with writing a serial story by his freshman English teacher, Ross Markonish. That story blossomed into a lengthier book, a deepening mythology, and even spawned his own variation on popular tabletop role-playing games, which was dubbed Ascension by one of his good friends and players in Tianjin, PRC. T.H. lives on the campus of Hebron Academy with his wife, Molly, and their dog, Zoe. When not writing he enjoys playing ice hockey, board and video games, drinking tea, and hoarding Legos he swears are for that aforementioned tabletop RPG he runs sometimes. This is his first novel and series; built from over fifteen years of tinkering, rewriting, frustration, and hope.