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This is a labyrinth of wickedness and destruction and pleasure and, above all, love, because in the end it’s all just one big, mind-bending love story, isn’t it?
It’s as if the books had their own story to tell, and I’ve come along as the scribe chosen to pen them. A confession: I just learned this year where the worms in Showdown actually came from. I should have known, of course, it makes perfect sense. All the signs were there.
I’ve also learned why Thomas was allowed to cross realities. And why Billy wrote that one innocent little statement that started the whole thing in Showdown. My family thinks I’ve lost my noodles because each night I come bounding out of my dungeon, giddy like a child having discovered one more nugget in this saga of ours. The further you get the better the discoveries become.
Four years have passed since Black, the novel that so many within the publishing world said would never work, was published with the full support of Allen Arnold. Today more people are buying the Circle Trilogy on any given day than any other novel I’ve written before or since.
I once told Allen that I was born to write these chronicles. Admittedly, their writing is only a small part of my life. But if I was born to write them, then in a small, small way you may have been born to read them. We, like the stories themselves, find ourselves interconnected in this wonderful thing called the story of life. You are part of my history and I am a part of yours. And this, my friend is what it means to come full circle.
Welcome to the Books of History.
Welcome to the Circle.
Ted Dekker
AN EXCERPT FROM CHOSEN
beginnings
Our story begins in a world totally like our own, yet completely different. What once happened here in our own history seems to be repeating itself thousands of years from now.
But this time the future belongs to those who see opportunity before it becomes obvious. To the young, to the warriors, to the lovers. To those who can follow hidden clues and find a great treasure that will unlock the mysteries of life and wealth.
Thirteen years have passed since the lush, colored forests were turned to desert by Teeleh, the enemy of Elyon and the vilest of all creatures. Evil now rules the land and shows itself as a painful, scaly disease that covers the flesh of the Horde, a people who live in the desert.
The powerful green waters, once precious to Elyon, have vanished from the earth except in seven small forests surrounding seven small lakes. Those few who have chosen to follow the ways of Elyon now live in these forests, bathing once daily in the powerful waters to cleanse their skin of the disease.
The number of their sworn enemy, the Horde, has grown in thirteen years and, fearing the green waters above all else, these desert dwellers have sworn to wipe all traces of the forests from the earth.
Only the Forest Guard stands in their way. Ten thousand elite fighters against an army of nearly four hundred thousand Horde.
But the Forest Guard is starting to crumble.
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