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The Sixth Precept
The Sixth Precept

The Sixth Precept

12+

FICTION

438 Pages, 6 x 9

Formats: Trade Paper, EPUB

Trade Paper, $18.99 (CA $24.99) (US $18.99)

Publication Date: October 2011

ISBN 9781925148503

Rights: WOR

IFWG Publishing International (Oct 2011)

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Overview

In 16th century medieval Japan, Yoshima Mitsu, who is gifted with psychic powers, uses her prescient abilities to send her young attendant, Shioko, into the future. There, Mitsu believes Shioko will be safe from the purges of the maniacal warlord Omori Kadanamora, his warrior monks and his half-human, half-bestial Shadow-Trackers.In present-day Pittsburgh, police Lieutenant Kim Yoshima is attacked by a creature out of someone’s twisted nightmare. In the aftermath of that terrifying struggle, Kim finds a young Japanese girl named Shioko, lost, confused and calling Kim “Mitsu” and her monstrous attacker a “Shadow-Tracker.”Wayne Brewster dreams of the costumed hero, ArcNight. But more than that, he feels bizarrely connected to the fictional crime fighter as if ArcNight and his comic book world are real. And in all of his dreams, Brewster sees one constant, one face repeated over and over–the face of Kim Yoshima.Empowered by a mysterious book, The Five Precepts to Enlightenment, Kim realizes her destiny is in the past. Using her own burgeoning esper powers, Kim, accompanied by Shioko and Brewster, travel by means of a temporal rift to feudal Japan. There they must assume different personas to fight Omori and creatures of Japan’s mythological world to fulfill ancient prophesy and modern historical fact. If they fail, history will be altered and the world will change forever.

Author Biography

Larry Ivkovich’s short genre work has been published in various online and print publications including Penumbra, Shoreline of Infinity, Star Quake 1, and Triangulation. He has been a finalist in the L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future contest and was the 2010 recipient of the CZP/Rannu Fund award for fiction. Larry’s published novels include the urban fantasy series, The Spirit Winds Quartet (The Sixth Precept and Warriors of the Light, Orcus Unchained, published thus far) from IFWG Publishing. Fantasy novel Blood of the Daxas is available from Assent Publishing. Larry is a member of the Pittsburgh Worldrights and WorD, two local writing and critique groups, as well as the statewide group Pennwriters.