Dichotomy: Book Two Of The Centum Path Series

by Alp Mortal, Morgan Starr (Editor)

Dichotomy is part 2 of The Centum Path series. It comes after Black Moon Rising.
In part 2, immediately following their flight from Campana, Meredith and Caleb are separated, and a near impossible task lies ahead of them both – survival in an uncertain and alien Universe.
Caleb, kidnapped and imprisoned by the Hertogin – head of the ruling Triad - has but one choice … to allow his seed to be used to breed an army of fanatics or face a life of isolation. He is incarcerated alongside a motley crew of other Centum Path dwellers caught up in a power struggle caused by the death of the Maje Lebron. They elect him as their leader and he alone has the means to save them. In fighting for their freedom, Caleb kills a man. It unleashes a powerful alter ego and the gift of future sight. Caleb can now see a hundred different futures but each is reached only through unfathomable bloodshed.
Meredith encounters the god-like figure of Osäl. He is tested, and eventually given aid to seek Caleb and find a place of safety while Osäl barters with his sworn enemy to bring Bakar and Jonathan – with their precious gift of gold – back to save the peoples of the Centum Path from starvation.
Tanaka, the master time weaver, begins his quest to find his missing son, Kilar, now part of Caleb’s revolutionary band of followers.
The enemies of the Centum Path are mustering, weakening its fragile defences, which rely on the gold that Bakar and Jonathan must deliver. Their journey is told in the next instalment of the story (‘The Portal Key’), alongside Phaeton’s and Craig’s odyssey now that they have perfected the portal key.
Black Moon Rising thrust the reader straight into the heart of the lives of three couples, through whom we learn something of the nature of Space, Time and the meaning of Life ... and love. Dichotomy examines the conflict between love and the attraction of power beyond imagining.
The Centum Path Series. A series that will build into an epic science fiction saga.

Genres: Queer

Kindle Edition

Published March 4, 2020

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....