As we move into a new week I wanted to share a new book with you called Beyond The Steps Of Stone (The Prophecies of Fate) by Beth A. Freely that I received a PDF Copy of from Voracious Readers and the Author for this review. Inside this post is my affiliate links if you click on the links and make a purchase I will make a small percentage from the items you purchase.
Beyond The Steps Of Stone (The Prophecies of Fate) is book one of the series and the first book from this Author I’ve had the opportunity to read. It could be classified as a Sci-F but it is also a romance as well. The characters were engaging and realistic, the plot had numerous twists and turns. Here is something you might find surprising. this could also be a “mystery thriller” with a science fiction plot.
Cryogenic stasis only to wake up 2,000 years in the future with the world as you know it destroyed! With half of the humans who entered stasis dead, including General Crane, Colonel Morgan Langtree finds herself in charge of the survivors. On a scouting mission to Belize, Morgan and her group find an alien race, the Allorvians, who had initially been instrumental in the development of human society. Morgan and the alien leader, Lord Jericho Juriath have an immediate affinity for each other. As Morgan goes undercover to learn the intentions of the aliens, she and Jericho begin falling in love
In the story we find a world in trouble and aliens who look like us.. Throw in a prophecy and some bad E.T.s and you’ve got a great escape tale. The romance and the aliens and the Earth-is-not-as-we-know-it part, but some of the other plot twists came as a surprise. Russian words in the book were written in Russian and can be hard to say so be prepared to be stumped at times.
About the book:
One Army Colonel. One alien leader. One prophecy. The fate of Earth is in their hands. Can they come together in enough time to save it before an old enemy arrives?
Army Ranger Colonel Morgan Langtree has awoken from cryogenic stasis to discover that her own world has become alien to her. Earth, now a virtual Garden of Eden, is both beautiful – and dangerous. Now responsible for all of the survivors of the Area 51 base, Langtree sets out to discover what happened to her world…
…and why they slept for 1,500 years longer than intended.
Following her late commanding officer’s instructions, Langtree and her team set off for the Belize Valley Area and the city of Lamanai. She finds a thriving society based on Central American Indians of millennia before in the remains of the city as well as the Lamanai’s gods.
Enter Lord Jericho Juriath, the charismatic leader of a race of aliens known as the Allorvian’s. He has brought the remainder of his people to Earth, a planet his own ancestors helped seed long before the birth of Christ. Earth was to be a safe haven, a thriving planet his people could settle on, disappearing into human society. But, like Colonel Langtree, Juriath has found a world devoid of cities and technology. With too many riddles that need solving – and a prophecy he’s not sure he believes in – Juriath is left wondering what happened.
Both leaders are forced to make a choice: forge an alliance with one another or go their own way. Can they move past their differences and find love, securing the prophecy that will save both of their people before the Allorvian’s enemies find them? Or are they doomed to repeat history and become slaves to a race older than time?
Meet the Author: Beth A. Freely
Born and raised in upstate New York, with a brief and very influential stint living in Great Britain, Beth A. Freely now calls Texas her home.
With more than 14 years of writing experience as a copywriter, she holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Media Communication with a minor in Marketing and a master’s degree in English and Creative Writing.
In 2003, she published some of her fanfiction online and won awards for her stories. Two years later, she was the first-place winner of the 2005 Arche Books Publishing Novel Writing Contest, Women’s Fiction with her novel Behind the Eyes of Dorian Gray.
The Legend of Captain St. Pierre, her second novel, was written with her best friend, Mariam, and is the first book in a planned trilogy.
The Loch is her third novel.
Beyond The Steps of Stone is her fourth novel and won the 2022 SPRING BOOKFEST AWARDS – 1st Place Romance/Science-Fiction and 2nd Place Science-Fiction/Aliens & Alien Invasion.
She loves horseback riding, swimming, reading, cuddling her cats, and helping other authors hone their craft.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
