Dimensions: Origins (The Complete Series): Dimensions: Origins
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Dimensions: Origins
Includes 3 Books
Leilu - Book 1 in the Dimensions Origins Series
Leilu Karis spends her days going to school, working at the local bakery, and sleeping next to her father's grave. Then, one night, a strange man appears near the graveyard. His sweet, innocent blue eyes hook Leilu immediately, and their attraction is instant.
But, when an unexpected suitor comes knocking at Leilu's door, she must make a choice. Listen to her overbearing family and marry their pick for her, or follow the man with the bluest eyes to a place from which she may never return.
Phineas: Book 2 in the Dimensions Origins series.
What will Phineas Zorg do for love?
After meeting Leilu Karis, Phineas’s life has irrevocably changed. She is sweet, smart, and her smile makes his heart ache. With her by his side, he believes he can do anything. Even become a scientist against his father’s wishes. When Thomas Zorg finds out about his son's new aspirations, and his new love interest, he issues an ultimatum: Get rid of the Leilu or else.
With Phineas’s love of Leilu growing with each passing day, and the rift between him and his father widening by the minute, Phineas must make a choice. Follow in his father’s footsteps and become the next CEO of Mega-Corp or keep Leilu by his side, and continue in his quest to find a new fuel source that can power the entire universe.
Taklin: Book 3 In the Dimensions Origin Series
Taklin has spent a lifetime proving to himself and to his family that he is different from the brutish men that roam the small town of Dry Creek. He has even convinced a beautiful girl named Sarah to marry him. Then, everything changed.
A machine has landed in Dry Creek that threatens to reduce everything to waste. Taklin and his younger brother, Troy, must find out who operates the machine and stop them. If Dry Creek falls, the universe may follow.
Seven Steps
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Leilu
Dimensions Origins
Book 1
Chapter 1
Leilu Karis knelt by her father’s grave. There was no grief or remorse in her heart.
After sixteen years of heaping every sort of mental, verbal, and physical abuse upon his only daughter, Kalor Karis finally keeled over in his favorite chair ten minutes before his normal bedtime with a mouth full of liquor and a belly full of rat poison.
Leilu thought of that fateful morning two weeks prior. He hit me. It was only right.
The smell of oil sat comfortably in her nostrils. Oil and decay and rot. The smell soothed her. It meant that her father’s body was turning into the black gunk that would eventually seep through the soil and run off into the small body of black water that surrounded the burial ground.
A death lake.
She smiled at the thought.
Good riddance.
She spread a dirty blanket onto the grass and sighed.
Over four hundred years ago, a small group of settlers left behind a technologically advanced planet and came to Gof, an uninhabited wasteland that had been terra formed during the Great Expansion and left to rot in the vastness of the universe. The settlers never discussed why they left their home planet, and, apparently, no one ever asked. The settlers did, however, record a strict list of rules and regulations on how to live, the roles of men and women, how to dress, and how to worship. Rules that were strictly enforced down to Leilu’s day. Somewhere, buried under the desert sands, was the ship the settlers arrived in. The sole piece of tech on Gof.
Three stars twinkled in the night sky. In a few more hours, that number would be reduced to one star, and then it would be time for the Festival of the Rising Sun. A celebration of the bright yellow orb’s return to the sky after a six-month long hibernation.
In her mind’s eye, Leilu saw the hordes of people who, no doubt, had begun to assemble in the dusty, desert valley to await the moment when the sunshine would touch their faces. Even now she felt its warm rays on her skin. She touched one hand to her cheek, and imagined that it wasn’t her own.
After a lifetime of abuse and neglect by the two people who were supposed to love her the most, Leilu finally had the chance at a normal life with a normal man. Only, there weren’t any normal men there. She was surrounded by men like her father. Hyper macho and free with their discipline. Men who thought of their wives and daughters as slaves. Things to be owned, possessed, and corrected.
Maybe that’s why mother left, Leilu thought. Maybe she ran away to be with someone who truly loved her. Maybe she has another family? A warm home with a fireplace, and plenty of clothes and hugs and soup. Things she couldn't have in Daddy's house.
Lonesomeness made her heart ache. She wondered if she’d ever find a home like that. One full of joy, trust, and love. Or, would she be doomed to a life like the one the rest of the women in the town had? Surviving, but barely living. Walking on egg shells. Afraid to sneeze or to upset their husbands and sons in any way. Bruised, battered, and unloved. Just waiting for their turn to die so that they could finally have peace among the oil and rocks. That was what they said when they passed each other in the street, wasn’t it? With despondent eyes and sad smiles, they’d nod at each other.
The lake find you yet?
they would ask in soft voices.
Not yet, but it’s a’comin’.
She spat on the ground, pulled her knees up to her chest, and rocked. Just the thought of it made her lungs tight.
No. Not me. Not ever.
She picked up one of the rocks that lined her father’s grave and turned it over in her hand. It was black and shiny, as if the oil from the lake had infused it somehow.
Is this a piece of somebody? An arm? A foot? An eyeball?
The rock was oddly rough, and made little fissures in her fingertips and palms as she rolled it around.
Who were you, Mr. Rock? Were you a good person or a bad one? Light or dark?
She rolled it in her palm for a second more, imprinting the jagged edges into her memory before rearing her arm back and throwing it as far as she could.
Goodbye, Mr. Rock.
She heard it clang against the building pile of stones near the line of dead trees that surrounded the grave site. Fourteen, to be precise. She’d thrown one of them each night since they laid her father there.
Footsteps sounded from her left. Someone was coming. Marching through the woods that grew on the far side of the graveyard. She heard the crunch as they stepped over dead leaves and twigs.
Who could it be?
Most people were either home readying themselves for the festival, or heading toward the Valley. She hadn’t seen another living soul in hours except the grave keeper, and it was still up to debate whether he was living or not. She saw his thin white hair, his slight build, and his translucent skin that hung from him like an oversized coat. He was a quiet man, adding to the mystery that surrounded him.
The footsteps were closer now.
Was it the grave keeper? Or was it someone else? Someone who’d know she’d be there alone? Someone who wanted to do terrible things to her?
As quickly as she could, she gathered her blanket and climbed to her feet when, just as quickly as they had started, the footsteps stopped.
She looked to her left, then to her right. There was no one there.
Odd.