When Twilight Falls

This is the oficial introdution for When Twilight Falls. Not the tiny blurb we are all given.

When the TeckSpire Company discovered Sayerass they found a world with a truly human population stuck in an eternal middle-ages. The planet had many more surprises in store, for the inhabitants pre-dated Humanity by a good million years. With all the knowledge of Terran science there was no way it could exist. That did not stop the Company from exploiting the local slave owning society.
Reginald Fairly was new from Earth, a junior executive on the fast track to success. He was a good man, but harboured a terrible secret that kept him awake all night in his own private nightmare. He had no compulsion about buying a young slave girl called Sara to help appease his inner demons, even if he had to pull her down into his own personal nightmare.
Sara would have to choose whether to trust the strange alien with sinister secrets or betray him. But to help him the innocent child would have to learn to lie, steal and kill.
With the knowledge of the mysterious planet’s existence leaking out, various factions converged, each with their own agenda. Some wanted to take it for themselves, some to strip-mine the world and enslave the survivors, and some to blow the obscenity from existence and make way for Terran racial supremacy. But the last faction only wanted to feed.
To save the world Reg would have to choose wisely. For in a world without good there was still plenty of evil, and no one was who they seemed to be. Could he trust the saintly Sister Maria of the Temple of Mercy? But even she had surprising talents and an agenda of her own. What about the doctor, a woman who hid her past, allegiance and even her very name, but she did have amazing power. Could he afford her help, and would the price be his soul? Did he have a choice? Or Geo Trace, an ex circus strongman and amateur archaeologist, searching for the astounding secrets that lay hidden for billions of years beneath Sayerssian soil.
Perhaps the secret to saving Sayerass lay in an almost forgotten cell in the capital’s sinister Citadel. Or in a cosmic junk yard halfway across known space waiting to be born. Or perhaps it lay in Sara’s courage and love.
Only one thing was certain, the tides of cosmic war were approaching the forgotten world, nothing could stop it and very little would survive the onslaught.
For when twilight falls on the longest night of the year, and the oldest ones emerge to feed, mankind shall become but a legend.

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When Twilight Falls

This is the oficial introdution for When Twilight Falls. Not the tiny blurb we are all given.

When the TeckSpire Company discovered Sayerass they found a world with a truly human population stuck in an eternal middle-ages. The planet had many more surprises in store, for the inhabitants pre-dated Humanity by a good million years. With all the knowledge of Terran science there was no way it could exist. That did not stop the Company from exploiting the local slave owning society.
Reginald Fairly was new from Earth, a junior executive on the fast track to success. He was a good man, but harboured a terrible secret that kept him awake all night in his own private nightmare. He had no compulsion about buying a young slave girl called Sara to help appease his inner demons, even if he had to pull her down into his own personal nightmare.
Sara would have to choose whether to trust the strange alien with sinister secrets or betray him. But to help him the innocent child would have to learn to lie, steal and kill.
With the knowledge of the mysterious planet’s existence leaking out, various factions converged, each with their own agenda. Some wanted to take it for themselves, some to strip-mine the world and enslave the survivors, and some to blow the obscenity from existence and make way for Terran racial supremacy. But the last faction only wanted to feed.
To save the world Reg would have to choose wisely. For in a world without good there was still plenty of evil, and no one was who they seemed to be. Could he trust the saintly Sister Maria of the Temple of Mercy? But even she had surprising talents and an agenda of her own. What about the doctor, a woman who hid her past, allegiance and even her very name, but she did have amazing power. Could he afford her help, and would the price be his soul? Did he have a choice? Or Geo Trace, an ex circus strongman and amateur archaeologist, searching for the astounding secrets that lay hidden for billions of years beneath Sayerssian soil.
Perhaps the secret to saving Sayerass lay in an almost forgotten cell in the capital’s sinister Citadel. Or in a cosmic junk yard halfway across known space waiting to be born. Or perhaps it lay in Sara’s courage and love.
Only one thing was certain, the tides of cosmic war were approaching the forgotten world, nothing could stop it and very little would survive the onslaught.
For when twilight falls on the longest night of the year, and the oldest ones emerge to feed, mankind shall become but a legend.

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When Twilight Falls

When Twilight Falls

by Gerard Whittaker
When Twilight Falls

When Twilight Falls

by Gerard Whittaker

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Overview

This is the oficial introdution for When Twilight Falls. Not the tiny blurb we are all given.

When the TeckSpire Company discovered Sayerass they found a world with a truly human population stuck in an eternal middle-ages. The planet had many more surprises in store, for the inhabitants pre-dated Humanity by a good million years. With all the knowledge of Terran science there was no way it could exist. That did not stop the Company from exploiting the local slave owning society.
Reginald Fairly was new from Earth, a junior executive on the fast track to success. He was a good man, but harboured a terrible secret that kept him awake all night in his own private nightmare. He had no compulsion about buying a young slave girl called Sara to help appease his inner demons, even if he had to pull her down into his own personal nightmare.
Sara would have to choose whether to trust the strange alien with sinister secrets or betray him. But to help him the innocent child would have to learn to lie, steal and kill.
With the knowledge of the mysterious planet’s existence leaking out, various factions converged, each with their own agenda. Some wanted to take it for themselves, some to strip-mine the world and enslave the survivors, and some to blow the obscenity from existence and make way for Terran racial supremacy. But the last faction only wanted to feed.
To save the world Reg would have to choose wisely. For in a world without good there was still plenty of evil, and no one was who they seemed to be. Could he trust the saintly Sister Maria of the Temple of Mercy? But even she had surprising talents and an agenda of her own. What about the doctor, a woman who hid her past, allegiance and even her very name, but she did have amazing power. Could he afford her help, and would the price be his soul? Did he have a choice? Or Geo Trace, an ex circus strongman and amateur archaeologist, searching for the astounding secrets that lay hidden for billions of years beneath Sayerssian soil.
Perhaps the secret to saving Sayerass lay in an almost forgotten cell in the capital’s sinister Citadel. Or in a cosmic junk yard halfway across known space waiting to be born. Or perhaps it lay in Sara’s courage and love.
Only one thing was certain, the tides of cosmic war were approaching the forgotten world, nothing could stop it and very little would survive the onslaught.
For when twilight falls on the longest night of the year, and the oldest ones emerge to feed, mankind shall become but a legend.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940011100284
Publisher: Gerard Whittaker
Publication date: 08/13/2010
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 512 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Once I was a soldier, getting blown up a few times convinced me that a change of career might be a good idea.However, given some of the jobs I've done since, being shot in the chest could be preferable to being stabbed in the back. I'm happily married with my wife helping me proof read my books.

I've studied military history, used most types of swords and medieval weapons. I spent a few years learning how to write and had my fair share of rejection slips. I'm still hoping to see my work in print. However, in the meantime, I want to share my worlds with the world at large. Perhaps someone might suggest ways to improve my writing. I've enjoyed writing "When Twilight Falls" intending to develop the story slowly with an ever increasing threat level. I've written about fourteen books so far, not all were completed. I was half way through a novel about an alien invasion with modern day US Airtforce taking on flying saucers. Then I saw a little film called Independence Day and sulked for a month.

There are too many Sci-Fi books written for children in my opinion. So I'm trying to write for adults, if that includes a bit of sex then so be it. Heroes are just normal people in extraordinary circumstances. When they get the job done, they are still just your average Joe with all the weaknesses of you or I. For some reasons most of my worlds are not very nice, I suppose the good worlds don't need saving. So there is plenty of scope for temptation in many forms for the 'Heroes' to fall into. When you put yourself in their place, wouldn't you give in to temptation too?
All the best to one and all. I wish you the best of luck in avoiding temptation.

I've just uploaded a short novel called "The Streets of Bucharest". I'm still working on the full sized book and expect it to be online shortly. I'm sorry I screwed up not loading the full version. But I did give it for free to make up for my mistake. The Full version of The Streets of Bucharest is now online. It's only 40,000 words but I hope you will enjoy it.

Just finished rewriting an old book of mine "The Bonds of Time". It was an experiment in erotic drama with a lot of BDSM thrown in. For anyone interested it also gives a short description of Aeden, a couple of years after the founding. It was not a very nice place when TIME was first being formed for self defense, and long before the Cosmic Guardians were even thought of to protect the Multiverse.

Finished Isralla and now working on a sequel called Enryn, using a new slant, telling of a war from the Marines' point of view.
I'm writing these with as little sex and as much action as the characters will let me. So if anything goes wrong, blame them!

Date 13 December 2010
Thanks for the rating, for a writer who lives and works alone any kind of a pat on the back is very welcome.

Sometimes I am intending to finish "Of Dusk and Dawn" in the New Year. But I admit to getting writer's block and being side tracked by Isralla and Enryn. I hope these books will keep you all amused till I can get back to D&D.

A word of warning, I've finished a new book called "The Cloud Knights". A sort of cross between Biggles and Sharp, set in a crazy world you will not recognise. So if you like the idea of bi-planes versus airships, politics and treason, and a hero determined to rise from the ranks to become a Cloud Knight, fighting for freedom in a world where everything is for sale to those with the rank to claim it. Then you might like it!

Currently working on a sequel called the Sky Knights, which will be big. And if that works I might round off the trilogy with the Star Knights.

I also draw my own book covers using DAZ Studio which explains how I keep uploading new covers.

Gerard Whittaker

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