Echoes of the Ascended: Song of Reckoning (Elysian Realms, #2)

Ten years on Earth. One mission buried. One reckoning rising.
Lyrien Vaelcrest was never meant to stay. But exile became survival, and for a decade he's hidden among humans—his power muted, his past silenced, his true identity forgotten by most.
Until Kaelith returns.
Once a trusted ally, now a rising force on the edge of instability, Kaelith is building something dangerous—something that could fracture not only Earth's fragile leyline system, but the realm of Elysia itself. And he's not working alone.
As Lyrien races to uncover what the Ascension Council buried and what his father is truly planning, the lines between allegiance and betrayal blur. Friends carry secrets. Enemies wear familiar faces. And the deeper Lyrien digs, the more he realizes the war ahead isn't just political or planetary—it's personal.
Book Two of Echoes of the Ascended peels back the veil between power and purpose, revealing a world where resonance can heal or destroy, and silence is never truly safe.

My love for sci-fi goes way back to my childhood. I mean, who didn't love movies like Tron and Terminator when they were a kid? Or great oldies like WarGames? I grew up in the advent of technology and rode the wave of the dot com lifestyle in my 20s. It was a wonderful time to be alive, to see where tech could go. Being involved in the field as a database admin and then later as a hardware tech and web designer, I had my fingers in all of it and I loved what it was all about.
In college, I was a true cyberpunk and gloried over works by Gibson and Dick. I reveled in the hackers manifesto like a warrior and actually prayed for a world like BladeRunner. They were very cool, hyper-energized times we were in and it gave me scores of ideas and hands-on experience to dump into my work.
Now, years later, I am still amazed at what technology and science have continued to churn out. Dystopian worlds are not far off, and with my techie past, I have more than enough ammo in my brainpan to fill many more books. And many more shelves.