Refuge: Book 5: Angels & Demons

by Doug Dandridge

The Alliance continues its march across the Empire of Ellala’lysana, winning battle after battle, but at a cost in lives lost.The new tactics and the newly developed technologies of the people from Earth appear to be unstoppable, and the forces of the evil empire are pressed on every side.But the Half Lich Emperor Ellandra Mashara has not lived for four thousand years without knowing how to fight. He is on the brink of immortality, his transformation to a litch almost complete. He needs to beat the human immortals, lead by the German Kurt von Mannerheim and the ancient Jew, Ismael Levine, if he wants to preserve his empire. He can only do this with the aid of the Death God Bothar, who will send his infernal minions to Refuge to battle the alliance. The alliance has a Goddess of its own, and Arathonia, the Queen of Life, is determined to supplant Bothar on this continent. This time it will not only be a battle between humans, elves, dwarves and orcs, dragons and wizards. This time the divine will battle the infernal in the flesh, and the planet might not survive. And the inventions of a whizened engineer from the Earth might by the deciding factor.

??? The saga continues, as Earth born humans and their native allies battle against an empire of death that has ruled the lands for thousands of years. Can the humans prevail, or will they become the slaves of the Ellala elves, kept only for their life energy?Scroll up and grab a copy today.

Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction

332 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 9, 2018

About the author

Doug Dandridge was born in Venice Florida in 1957, the son of a Florida native and a Mother of French Canadian descent. An avid reader from an early age, Doug has read most of the classic novels and shorts of Science Fiction and Fantasy, as well as multiple hundreds of historical works. Doug has military experience including Marine Corps JROTC, Active Duty Army, and the Florida National Guard. He attended Florida State University, studying Biology, Geology, Physics, and Chemistry, and receiving a BS in Psychology. Doug then studied Clinical Psychology at the University of Alabama, with specific interests in Neuropsychology and Child Psychology, completing a Masters and all course work required for a PhD. He has worked in Psychiatric Hospitals, Mental Health Centers, a Prison, a Juvenile Residential Facility, and for the his last seven years in the work force for the Florida Department of Children and Families. Since March of 2013 he has worked as a full time writer. Doug has been writing on and off for fifteen years. He concentrates on intelligent science fiction and fantasy in which there is always hope, no matter how hard the situation. No area of the fantastic is outside his scope, as he has completed works in near and far future Science Fiction, Urban and High Fantasy, Horror, and Alternate History.
Doug has published 34 books on Amazon, with over 230,000 sales with 5,000 reviews averaging 4.6 stars. He will be publishing his first traditionally published book in 2018, followed by the second book of the contracted series. Also in the planning stages are post apocalyptic and alternate history series.

Reviews

[Jim Strasma · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really like the premise of this series - human armed forces of our day swept somehow out of a nuclear war into an alternative world in which magic works but civilization is otherwise at least a thousand years behind ours. At first, our modern weapons work, but soon the Earth transplants are hard put to recreate older Earth technologies not yet developed in the new world, while figuring out how the local magic works. I also very much like the idea of how having a few essentially immortal humans around changes things, and appreciate the respect shown religion by the series.

That said, after five books and the original bad guy not yet caught and rendered harmless, I'm ready for this series to end. The author originally expected to squeeze twenty volumes out of this idea, by having another bad guy pop up after the first one is beaten, but that, frankly, is what I've always hated about fantasy books - the bad guys are always just about to win throughout every volume, yet somehow never do. Who needs to read anything that predictable?