The Fall of the Wall of Sleep Act 1 - The Fall of the Wall of Sleep, #1

At Fay & Drake College, tucked deep within the mysterious town of Eldermoor in the Appalachian Mountains of Old Vermont, first-year student Bran Eklund enters a world where scholarship collides with secrets too strange to name. Under the watchful eye of the formidable Dean Marianne Solwyn and a faculty brimming with brilliance, Bran soon discovers that campus life is far more than lectures and late nights.

With his sharp-witted artificial companion, Diana, and a circle of steadfast friends, Bran is drawn into whispers of ancient myths and forces that move just beyond sight. As loyalties are tested and danger creeps closer, his martial skill and restless intellect are pitted against mysteries that blur the boundary between reality and legend.

In Eldermoor, every choice echoes with consequence. The Fall of the Wall of Sleep is a tale of courage, loyalty, and the search for truth in a place where the shadows hold secrets powerful enough to reshape the world.

The Fall of the Wall of Sleep is a story designed as an ongoing serial in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burrough's Barsoom or Robert Adam's Horseclans novels. Set in a universe next door, the reader will find the protagonist in a world both comfortably recognizable and radically divergent to our own.   Expect something of an ongoing mystery, a bit of old-fashioned action and adventure, a dash of humor, and yes a romantic B plot.

Each Act is targeted for approximately 52K words, with Act 1 clocking in at just over 53K. Act 2 is fully drafted and under revision and Act 3 is approximately a third drafted and fully plotted. Act's 1-3 complete the story's first major arc. Note that the story is told almost exclusively from a third-person perspective of the protagonist written in the present tense.