The Eldarn Sequence

by Robert Scott and Jay Gordon

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The Hickory Staff – Book I

Steven Taylor is bored. As assistant manager at the First National Bank of Idaho Springs in Colorado, he finds most days tiresome: he’s marking time in the foothills and waiting for opportunity to come calling. A new romance inspires him – but not as much as the unexpected discovery of a 135-year-old safe deposit box he finds while wading through a basement full of old ledgers. Finding the key should be difficult, but it is not as arduous a task as deciding whether he should breach the bank’s code of ethics and open it. The safe deposit box has been locked tight since 1870, when the lone miner who rented it arranged for its security with a fortune in raw silver, then disappeared less than a day later.

And when Steven does succumb to his overwhelming curiosity, he finds far more than he could ever have anticipated – not least a portal to the mysterious world of Eldarn. He and his roommate, Mark Jenkins, drawn inexorably into this land filled with magic and mysticism, discover Eldarn is wild and beautiful, rich in culture and traditions – and oppressed by Nerak, a monstrous dictator with a lust for power.

In their search for a path back to Colorado, the pair join forces with Eldarni partisans struggling to battle the ancient evil behind Nerak’s reign of terror. And all too soon they discover the fate of Eldarn hinges on them – and their ability to find a way home.

Lessek’s Key – Book II

The Larion spell table has been dormant for nearly a thousand Twinmoons. It waits in a forgotten chamber in Sandcliff Palace, the abandoned Larion Senate stronghold on Eldarn’s North Sea. The spell table holds the power to see the people of the five lands safely through the oppression and brutality that have haunted them for generations, but without Lessek’s key it is a worthless slab of granite – and Lessek’s key itself is just a nondescript stone Steven Taylor and Mark Jenkins overlooked on the night they fell through the far portal into Eldarn.

Retrieving the key and freeing Eldarn’s people rests with Steven Taylor, the would-be sorcerer from Colorado, who is racing across America with Nerak, the fallen Larion dictator, hot on his heels. Steven must reach Idaho Springs and find Lessek’s key before it falls into Nerak’s hands and is lost for ever – and with it, the lives of untold millions, in both of Steven’s worlds.

Larion Senators – Book III

Nerak is defeated, his soul cast for ever into the Fold’s inky void – but the evil that possessed him and brutalised the people of Eldarn has escaped, and taken both Lessek’s key and Mark Jenkins with it. Steven Taylor must put his own feelings to one side – there will be time to mourn his best friend later – for Eldarn’s fate hangs in the balance.

As Steven, the Larion Senator Gilmour and the woodsman Garec make their way across country to meet up with those who are left of their allies, Mark disappears into the foothills of the Blackstone Mountains, determined to excavate the Larion spell table and use its awesome power to destroy Eldarn.

And during an epic journey across the Ravenian Sea, Steven discovers he is stronger than he thought . . . but is he strong enough to kill Mark Jenkins to save two worlds? 

Return to Eldarn for this towering finale, where the mysteries of the Larion Senators are waiting to be found, for good or for evil.

 

Jay M. Gordon was born and raised in Brooklyn and studied business management at City College in Manhattan. He completed a Master’s and began working as a business programmer in 1967, emerging as a network management specialist during the early years of personal computer hardware and software development. After moving to central New Jersey with his wife, Susan and his two daughters, Stacy and Karen, Jayfounded Future Systems Technology, an independent consulting firm building corporate network and technology systems along the eastern seaboard. After years of professional and technical writing, Jay began his work in fiction with The Hickory Staff, Book One of the Eldarn Sequence.
In 2002, he was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). 
 
His disease did not stop him from enjoying the company of his five grandchildren, watching his beloved NY Yankees, or cheering on the hot-and-cold running NY Giants, who frustrated and thrilled Jay for the better part of 60 years.  He was a widely-read science fiction, horror, and fantasy junkie who donated thousands of paperbacks to the Monmouth County Library Association when he was no longer able to read on his own. Jay’s friends and family remember him as a man who took dog-eared paperbacks everywhere. He was known to pay $250 for field level box seats at Yankee stadium and then sit through the entire game reading Stephen Donaldson and drinking Diet Coke. Jay read in line at the grocery store, during intermission at Broadway shows, while weathering traffic on the Jersey Turnpike, and while waiting in line for his favorite Disney attractions.
 
Jay Mark Gordon passed away on November 18, 2005.
 
 
 
 

The Hickory Staff – Book I

Steven Taylor is bored. As assistant manager at the First National Bank of Idaho Springs in Colorado, he finds most days tiresome: he’s marking time in the foothills and waiting for opportunity to come calling. A new romance inspires him – but not as much as the unexpected discovery of a 135-year-old safe deposit box he finds while wading through a basement full of old ledgers. Finding the key should be difficult, but it is not as arduous a task as deciding whether he should breach the bank’s code of ethics and open it. The safe deposit box has been locked tight since 1870, when the lone miner who rented it arranged for its security with a fortune in raw silver, then disappeared less than a day later.

And when Steven does succumb to his overwhelming curiosity, he finds far more than he could ever have anticipated – not least a portal to the mysterious world of Eldarn. He and his roommate, Mark Jenkins, drawn inexorably into this land filled with magic and mysticism, discover Eldarn is wild and beautiful, rich in culture and traditions – and oppressed by Nerak, a monstrous dictator with a lust for power.

In their search for a path back to Colorado, the pair join forces with Eldarni partisans struggling to battle the ancient evil behind Nerak’s reign of terror. And all too soon they discover the fate of Eldarn hinges on them – and their ability to find a way home.

Lessek’s Key – Book II

The Larion spell table has been dormant for nearly a thousand Twinmoons. It waits in a forgotten chamber in Sandcliff Palace, the abandoned Larion Senate stronghold on Eldarn’s North Sea. The spell table holds the power to see the people of the five lands safely through the oppression and brutality that have haunted them for generations, but without Lessek’s key it is a worthless slab of granite – and Lessek’s key itself is just a nondescript stone Steven Taylor and Mark Jenkins overlooked on the night they fell through the far portal into Eldarn.

Retrieving the key and freeing Eldarn’s people rests with Steven Taylor, the would-be sorcerer from Colorado, who is racing across America with Nerak, the fallen Larion dictator, hot on his heels. Steven must reach Idaho Springs and find Lessek’s key before it falls into Nerak’s hands and is lost for ever – and with it, the lives of untold millions, in both of Steven’s worlds.

Larion Senators – Book III

Nerak is defeated, his soul cast for ever into the Fold’s inky void – but the evil that possessed him and brutalised the people of Eldarn has escaped, and taken both Lessek’s key and Mark Jenkins with it. Steven Taylor must put his own feelings to one side – there will be time to mourn his best friend later – for Eldarn’s fate hangs in the balance.

As Steven, the Larion Senator Gilmour and the woodsman Garec make their way across country to meet up with those who are left of their allies, Mark disappears into the foothills of the Blackstone Mountains, determined to excavate the Larion spell table and use its awesome power to destroy Eldarn.

And during an epic journey across the Ravenian Sea, Steven discovers he is stronger than he thought . . . but is he strong enough to kill Mark Jenkins to save two worlds? 

Return to Eldarn for this towering finale, where the mysteries of the Larion Senators are waiting to be found, for good or for evil.

 

Jay M. Gordon was born and raised in Brooklyn and studied business management at City College in Manhattan. He completed a Master’s and began working as a business programmer in 1967, emerging as a network management specialist during the early years of personal computer hardware and software development. After moving to central New Jersey with his wife, Susan and his two daughters, Stacy and Karen, Jayfounded Future Systems Technology, an independent consulting firm building corporate network and technology systems along the eastern seaboard. After years of professional and technical writing, Jay began his work in fiction with The Hickory Staff, Book One of the Eldarn Sequence.
In 2002, he was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). 
 
His disease did not stop him from enjoying the company of his five grandchildren, watching his beloved NY Yankees, or cheering on the hot-and-cold running NY Giants, who frustrated and thrilled Jay for the better part of 60 years.  He was a widely-read science fiction, horror, and fantasy junkie who donated thousands of paperbacks to the Monmouth County Library Association when he was no longer able to read on his own. Jay’s friends and family remember him as a man who took dog-eared paperbacks everywhere. He was known to pay $250 for field level box seats at Yankee stadium and then sit through the entire game reading Stephen Donaldson and drinking Diet Coke. Jay read in line at the grocery store, during intermission at Broadway shows, while weathering traffic on the Jersey Turnpike, and while waiting in line for his favorite Disney attractions.
 
Jay Mark Gordon passed away on November 18, 2005.