A legend ancient and dark, one slowly gaining substance, a terrifying reality.    Falling by Amos Keppler         One story of The Nine       438 tightly spaced pages. Hardcover edition. ISBN 978-82-91693-47-7    Release date November 20, 2025.    Sales price US $27.50, Europe 25 Ruro, UK 22.50 pounds (probably considerably less on some online stores). 175 000 words       Some places you can buy this one and others, and description of other Amos Keppler novels          In the realm of Arcadia, Earth is a myth. The ancestors of the people living there fled from the ancient Roman Empire long ago, but no one can find that anymore, no matter how much they explore the realm. The older teenagers are taught the age-old riddle at Higher Learning.    Janet of the Blue Flame is a citizen of Arcadia, of The Triple Cities. She gains hard-won knowledge, both about Arcadia and herself. On the day and night of her Sweet Sixteen, everything opens to her. Suspicion becomes certainty, and her life makes a hard turn, both left and right simultaneously, tearing her apart at the seams. She has always had a sense of falling, falling without end. The old, cruel oracle at the fair did not tell her anything she did not know.    Her eyes open wide, and she sees the far bigger existence. Arcadia is so small, and so isolated in the scheme of things. Everything she believed she knew is called into question. The truth is that Janet of the Blue Flame is born a sorcerer, one with powers of the mind and the body far exceeding those of most others, one in a line reaching far back in antiquity.    She encounters an older, experienced sorcerer. She becomes his apprentice, and he takes her far beyond everything she has known. Then, after hard, brutal trials of the mind and the spirit, he gives her her devoirs, her proof of a successful initiation...    ... leaving her in to pick up the scattered pieces of whatever remains of her life.    The apprentice has become a sorcerer. The shattered Janet of the Blue Flame is ready for the world.       The broken wheel is turning Slowly catching fire Slowly turning whole       Return to Midnight Fire Media main page Return to Firewind main page Return to The Nine main page       Images, text, music, art and web design Copyright Amos Keppler First night on the web 2025-11-20 The photographs on this site are taken with Canon EOS 5D Mark 3 and edited using Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop Illustrations/symbols were created in Illustrator.       CONTACT mail    IMPORTANT: To at least prevent automatic generated Spam the e-mail address above is fake or/and incomplete. To send e-mail add 2 - the number 2 - before the @       Or use the yahoo-address below.    Secondary E-Mail: manofhood@yahoo.com       Amos on Twitter: @HoodedMan and @AsterdisPrime