Prossia (Paperback)

There's a danger lurking among the comrades and friends Aly, a young Goolian just drafted into a war, has sworn to protect. It's worse than any enemy weaponry, any being known in the galaxy, and it has the potential of crumbling both hostile and allied forces. The worst part is this: That danger is Aly, herself, and she doesn't even know it.

Raphyel Montez Jordan, born February 10th, 1985, grew up in a Franklin, Tennessee household sensitive to the creative arts. As a child, his hobbies were drawing favorite cartoon and video game characters while making illustrated stories. This passion for art never left and followed him all the way up to his high school and college years. For example, while most of his friends were out at the movies or a football game, Jordan was stretched across his bedroom floor drawing and sometimes writing up till 3:00 in the morning. It wasn't until college when he underwent a personal "renaissance" of sorts that Jordan took his interest in writing to another level. When he was 19, he started writing a novel for fun, taking inspiration from the constant exposure of different ideas and cultures that college showed him while staying true to the values he grew up to embrace. However, when the "signs of the times" influenced the story and the characters to spawn into universes of their own, he figured he might possibly be on to something. As he studied graphic design at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia, Jordan also used his electives to study sciences like Astronomy, Psychology, and Biology in order enhance the reading experience in his story. He eventually made it a goal to have the story published after he graduated, and dubbed the goal "Operation Spanish Moss," the very same project that would develop into his first published book, "Prossia." The rest, as they say, is history.