Hotsuka's Story: Book 1 of the Dragon Pearl Series

As Punishment For Consummating His Marriage To A Human, The Celestial Hotsuka Is Expelled From Heaven And His Powers Reduced. Human, And Imprisoned, Hotsuka Is Freed By A Djinni, Tenshi, Who Tells Him His Newborn Son Will Die If He Doesn’t Receive A Dragon Pearl. No Sooner Has He Found His Son, Hotsuka Walks Into A Trap. Injured, He Is Taken In By Monks Who, As Payment For His Treatment, Require Five Years Of Service In A Monastery No Monk Has Ever Escaped. Over The Next Two Decades, Hotsuka Discovers His Humanity While Rising Through The Ranks To Become Abbot. Then, One Day, Tenshi Arrives With Terrible News. Will Hotsuka Leave The Monastery And Embark On A Perilous Adventure That Will Change His Life, The World He Calls Home And The Universe? Hotsuka's Story Is The First Novella In The Dragon Pearl Series, A Series Set In A World Where Gods And Humans Coexist And Borrows From Asian And Middle Eastern Mythologies. I had three visitors during that awful time of helplessness: the first was my enemy, the second a goddess with child and, finally, my only friend, a Djinni. No longer a celestial, Hotsuka must quickly adapt to life as a human if hes to save his newborn son. Things go from bad to worse when he learns that hes at the centre of a cosmic plan to change the universe forever. Not everyone, however, wants change Hotsukas Story is the first of six novellas in the epic fantasy Dragon Pearl series. Set in a world that borrows from Asian and Middle Eastern mythologies, and where gods and humans exist alongside one another, each novella describes the events that culminate in the Takeo Sura Pearl novels: Tamuda Rising and The Four-Day War.