The Guildshelm Legacy: The Second World Chronicles

Crystal Molcott has problems. Besides challenging a sexist tradition to become the first female Guildsman in her nation-state of Guildshelm, she is ordained bride to the realms Lord Minister Apparent and her heart belongs to someone else. Dividing her time between the fantastic reality of the Second World and the mundane, familiar First World does not make her life any easier.Complicating the problem is an evil Count, who is preparing to tear the hauntingly beautiful Guildshelm apart for his own greedy ambitions. Perceiving Crystal and her secret love to be a threat, he plots their deaths as part of his master plan. He may already be unstoppable.Can Crystal find the courage to face down this threat and live up to her Guildsman status? How will she resolve her love? A place of action, romance, adventure, and beauty, the nation of Guildshelm is a place you wont soon forget.

Christopher Turco lives in Phoenix, Arizona. The Second World Chronicles, of which this book is the first, have been a consuming passion of his since the late eighties; he is currently working on the next two books in the series at a pace one could only call maddening.