Book excerpt: Welcome to the one unique and original High Fantasy Romance Series written this entire century! Nothing in Shimrah is ever a coincidence.... It is always penned with purpose.... A destiny.... Princess Saffrodel and her High-Lords, Jaraadhrin and Quinzafoor, race against time, age and space to grow into their adult selves among turbulant love lives and employing complex and original magical arrays, hitherto unknown to the fantasy world, to manage, overcome and eradicate the threat, Shimrah faces from the betrayal of her twin uncles, Princes Ifreeth and Ibreeth. They train and prepare for a darkness, the likes of which they had never dreamed in their murkiest nightmares as the evil Royal twins unleash the power and forces of a shadow realm named Delcrum, upon the fair light of Shimrah. EXTENDED A nature of powerful, original beings, hitherto unknown, a realm that hides more than it reveals, a reinvention of the higher power and purpose, of the force we know as love! The key to the survival of a world that resides in the blood of a King.... The Prophesied Princess of Darkness and Light.... A hallowed High Lord bred for his Princess alone…. A Knight with a lecherous past, mentored to protect them both…. The tale of Righteous and Forbidden love… of humour and mirth… of heartbreak and loss… of chivalry and valour… of martial elegance and sophisticated flair… of fidelity and patriotism… of the sacred bonds of comradeship and family… of horror, terror, magic and mystery…’ The saga of those worst wreckers of all strategies - Fate, Prophesy, Destiny and the Desperate Desolation of the twisted paths of existence it leads the Shimrans through! Will the Light and Love, they entrust their Lives to, lead them right? Will the Fate, that they fervently place Faith in, ensure their Fortunes are fair? Will the Destiny, that they Deify and Devote to, lead them to the Divinity they desire? Accompany the sublime Shimrans and the magnificent creatures of their enchanting world, both dark and light, as they wound through the shimmering threads of Space, Destiny, Time and Fate. Experience their love, terror, joy, thrill, anger, revenge and hate, while witnessing the blasphemy of Shimran sin as you travel hand in hand, along the many-hued ribbons of their souls, spirits and centres within the heavenly gardens of Shimrah... and beyond!’