Immersive clean heroic fantasy where oddballs find their place, outcasts find their power, and every hero finds grace.

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What divine mercy would make a man rage?

Angelo, champion of the sea god, is ordered to deliver hope to his most despised enemies. Instead, he boards a ship headed in the opposite direction. But divine assignments aren’t so easily ignored. Shipwrecked and pursued by the very forces he despises, he faces an impossible choice: cling to the hatred that defines him, or embrace the treacherous divine assignment he fled. The future of two nations, and his own survival, hangs in the balance. Can he abandon the bitterness that defines him, or will his rebellion doom them all?

Ted Atchley writes clean heroic fantasy where outcasts discover their divine worth and exhausted heroes find the power of grace. His debut novel, The Key to Reality, became an Amazon #1 New Release, and his short fiction has appeared in Havok Publishing and the Eon City: Burnout anthology.

A graduate of Jerry Jenkins’ Your Novel Blueprint course, Ted lives in Charleston, SC, where he teaches high school robotics, speaks fluent movie quotes, and roots for the Carolina Panthers.

His mission is simple: to empower the ‘last picks on the playground’ by crafting clean, grace-centered adventures that prove every outcast has a divine purpose worth discovering.

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Portal Fantasy

The story of a “white hat” hacker who attempts to strike a work / life balance and fails so cataclysmically it breaks the fabric of space-time.

While the story begins with a strong sci-fi feel, it seamlessly transitions into a rich fantasy realm filled with bird people, a dimension-spanning conflict, and compelling characters. 

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