Book excerpt: The secret sleeps in darkness deep, where worthless and majestic meet and cowards come to guard their keep. Found among ashes and charred historical artifacts, The Legend of Demnog follows four strangers Cleatis and Sesstis Pumpernickle, Gottlieb of Shifting Corners, and Unsun Uvskapple as they search for the Legend of Demnog, an ancient treasure and suit of armor greedily sought after by the two opposing governments of the lands of Demnog and Wooernog. In this tale of mysteries and dark secrets, four strangers soon discover that their paths are about to lead them to discoveries they never could have imagined. Through personal recounts of their fragmented pasts and dialogues with moot guides, each of these four strangers unknowingly finds himself simultaneously living out two contrasting lives, one of which evades everyone but you, the reader.