The Soulstealer War

Unemployed after graduation, Kenneth McNary seeks inspiration on the Appalachian Trial. He never suspected that it would find him first. Ken is transported to a fairy tale world by a god like sentience and is tasked with uniting the world’s denizens for a coming war a war with eternal consequences for every soul consumed by the Enemy. While grappling with metaphysics and the dangers of his strange surroundings, Ken learns that the few humans inhabiting the realm are meek slaves to near immortal beings who have lost their magic. Complicating this situation is a mysterious new race of magic wielders and the reappearance of subterranean, flesh eating creatures long thought extinct. To survive the perils and embrace his destiny in a land hostile to humanity, Ken must discover the Fire within. But he faces two problems: he is a novice pitted against masters, and the magic may kill him before the masters do!