Journey to the Flame by Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard Monaco (
ISFDB) is his standalone historical occult fantasy adventure novel inspired by the works of H. Rider Haggard (
Wikipedia), set sometime before WWI where a wandering aviator discovers that the kingdom of the immortal Ayesha of Haggard's classic novel (
Wikipedia) is in fact a real place whose true existence is known of by a secret society, which must be protected from those would seek to exploit its secrets for evil purposes, free courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press' Venture imprint, who are e-printing it from its 1985 edition originally out from Bantam Spectra.
This is apparently Real Person Fic with Haggard himself and fellow author Rudyard Kipling in it, among other literary and historical guest stars.
Currently free @
Amazon (currently available to Canadians & in the UK and pretty much everywhere else that Amazon sells worldwide, since this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program)
Description
The war had already begun…
In the days before the Great War, forces of light clashed against the dark order of Thule in a war of shadows.
Darkness covered the land, and the kingdom fell into the annals of time.
Inspired by H. Rider Haggard’s novel SHE, Richard Monaco weaves a tale of a young aviator who rediscovers the lost kingdom that belonged to the mystic and immortal goddess Ayesha.
He and the beautiful goddess must defend her home and its secrets from evil men, whose ideas would help found the Nazi regime.
The world may not know it, but the war has begun, and it is coming for us all.
A unique merger of historical fact and imaginative fiction, Richard Monaco’s Journey to the Flame is a gripping historical fantasy adventure.