The Return of the Exiles

by Eddie Gubbins

Overview

The Empire is disintegrating. There has been no communication with Parison from Rombuli for over three years. People report seeing strange creatures flying over the land. Sending troops or some of the Covenent to investigate proves futile. As soon as they cross the border, nothing is heard from them. They disappear without trace.In the face of this threat, the plan is to hold onto Rombuli while a way is found of to ascertain what is happening. Edward Eastland is given the task of finding the Walloonian Army at a place called Bryants Ridge so that he can recruit some of the Covenent. With his friends Tag and Boris, he sets out leaving his new wife Kitty behind. They are cut off from Rombuli and have to find a different way back. Edward wonders whether his power and the expertise of Tag will keep them safe. Will he learn more about his power, magic as Tag calls it,m. Are the forces ranged against him equipped with greater powers. Will his friends follow him no matter what the dangers they encounter? As they set out they have to face the possibility that the Empire might not exist when or if they return to Rombuli.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044286412
Publisher:	Eddie Gubbins
Publication date:	10/10/2012
Series:	Rombuli Saga , #2
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	379 KB

About the Author

I left school at sixteen and became a cadet with he Shell Tanker Company. In all, I spent 12 years as a ships officer in the British Merchant navy. That is where my Tales from the Sea posted on www.theoldun.blogspot.com come from. Actually I used to put what happened while I was at sea in some sort of literary context while walking up and down the bridge of ships in the middle of the night. Though it can sound exciting travelling the world’s oceans, at times it can be very boring spendin four hours staring at the sea. I never wrote these stories down at the time just composed them in my head.
After leaving the sea, I graduated and became a university lecturer in Transport management. I had my first taste of writing seriously when I published a text book entitled Managing Trandport Operations.
While lecturing years if my students appeared to get bored with my what I was teaching them, I kept them awake by relating my experiences while at sea! It was these students who encouraged me to write the stories down and post them on the web. over a number of years I wrote a novel entitled Running after Maria loosely based on aperiod in my life. In this novel I explored the effect of great loss and heartbreak and how the kindness of others can lead to redemption. As a first novel I could not find a publisher though I am thinking of publishing this as an ebook.
Since retiring four years ago, I have signed up for Creative Writing classes at the local college. The Tutor ( Debbie Tyler-Bennett) is a poet and makes me write very bad poetry as well as short prose pieces. She has encouraged us to send our writing off to publishers. One of my short stories has been published as the runner up in a competion in an anthology “ islands in mind”.
I have written or am in the prossess of writing a fantasy novel called The Return of the Exiles. I can remeber exactrly when the ideas for this started. It was 1972 and my wife had gone to look after her terminally ill mother. She left me with a copy of Lord of the RIngs and an Album Rambling Boy by Tom Paxton. I read Lord of the Rings in a very short time. It occurred to me that this was a genre in which certain ideas could be explored. Over the years i thought about this made notes and wrote isolated incidents in the story. Since starting Creative Writingclasses some of the other participants I have read some of these incidents to the class. they encouraged me to write the whole novel the result of which is The Return of the Exiles which looks as though it is now growing into two books. On my other web site:
www.eddiegubbins.blogspot.com I am posting my fantasy novel The Return Of The Exiles a chapter a week.
I have published under a grant scheme two novels An Ordinary Life and A Ceremony of innocence.
I have for a long time been interested in how people see themselves and justify their actions. An Ordinary Life explores this concept in that the hero thinks he always acts for the best of motives.
A Ceremony of Innocence explores the 1980’s and how many people grabbed what they could and hang the consequences. They did not consider how their actions impacted on other people.