Books by LD Sledge
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Nimrod’s Peril
Summary: Nimrod’s Peril is for literate adults. It is a unique love story of a different kind, an exotic adult fantasy thriller with a few dark corners, points of high hilarity, sex, betrayal, hope and despair, relationships, danger, bizarre beings, spirituality, violence, healing, vengeance, and a feel good ending of triumph of good over evil.
Nimrod Woodbine, a young Apprentice Wanderer, has just begun his First Journeyman Walkabout. Nimrod wakes at dawn by his campfire as a huge, ragged, winged man flies off with Musette cradled in his arms. Nim races after them but loses them as they disappear over the trees. He sets out to rescue her.
Musette is a beautiful, human sized mouse who wears snug, gray leather pants, a dark jerkin, and a cocked hat sporting a little firefeather. She is as pretty as any girl in his eyes. They can be only friends, because she is a mouse and he is human. He loves her nonetheless.
Nimrod learns that his beloved Musette was abducted by Nymphae, the insatiable queen of the island kingdom of Eros, who enslaves men through the use of an ancient potion, then uses their essence to maintain her incredible beauty. She uses them up, and stores their living husks in her dungeons to terrorize her people. She thinks that Nimrod has such purity of essence that he will launch her into immortality, and he must come to her voluntarily, and he will try to rescue Musette.
Nimrod has to cross a terrifying abyss known as The Void. In the strange country beyond the Void he finds allies who help him on his quest, and encounters many obstacles that could dismay a lesser heart than has Nimrod.
Nimrod’s Peril is a screenplay and has been lauded as a “masterpiece” by editors and readers. Go here to read the first two chapters free.
