The Legacy of Ogma — E.A. Rappaport

"A potent sword and sorcery adventure with a multi-layered plot, brimming with action from cover to cover." - The Midwest Book Review

"A terrific debut! Rappaport creates a wondrous world of adventure and enchantment, with engaging, vividly drawn characters who will hopefully return for many more adventures." - Roy Johansen, Edgar Award-Winning Author of The Answer Man and The Joe Bailey Mystery series

"This book has it all for a fantasy fan!...A reader could not ask for more in a book from this genre than we have in this volume." - Steven McEvoy - Book Reviews and More

The thief wants riches. The knight wants justice. The warrior wants a good battle. The sorcerer wants power. Each adventurer carries a mysterious crystal sphere that will lead to a long-hidden secret beneath the sea.

After the thief, Halia, discovers a crystal sphere magically protected in a crumbling castle, she meets three other adventurers with their own mysterious spheres. Arwold, the knight, bears one on the hilt of his sword. With a sphere already in his possession, the sorcerer Ahriman enlists Xarun, a brutish warrior, to steal another one from the peaceful Arboreals. The four set off on a quest to find the final sphere, assisted by a master elementalist and his apprentices. Along the way, they battle demons, dragons, and one another. And they have no idea what the spheres have planned for them at the end of the journey.

The Legacy of Ogma is Book One in Legends of the Four Races, a series of nine high fantasy novels that form an Interlocking Matrix of six separate trilogies. Set in an alternate world filled with creatures both familiar and bizarre, each story in Legends of the Four Races is packed with action, adventure, mystery, and excitement. The Legacy of Ogma is the first book of The Weapons Trilogy and the first book of The Betrayal Trilogy.