Isis Wept

Egypt, 8000 years ago. The gods walk among men as titans, powerful beings with passions that move mountains, fix stars in the heavens, and master the forces of life and death. Within this world, the evil god Set betrays and murders his brother Osiris, king of rich and respected Abydos. Set steals all that Osiris had, including the queen, Isis, the goddess of life and beauty. Isis escapes her monstrous conqueror and bends her powers toward finding her love and bringing him back from death. But, like all gods, Isis is trapped despite her power, for she can never go beyond the limits of her nature. For that, she needs the assistance of man. In the course of this quest, kingdoms fall, armies clash, and the balance of power between gods and men is altered forever. Who holds power in such cataclysmic conflict? Is it those who define power, or those who define themselves? About the Author A lonely beacon of restraint, lost in a world of car-crazies. Ed Harris voiced those words to describe his character in The Right Stuff (movie version). Steve Loy believes quite arrogantly that those words describe him as well. He lives in a world where any decent writer must write, pay a publicist to promote his work, pay an editor to look over his work, pay a cover artist to prettify his work and pay a designer to develop it. No. Any artist worth his copy paper must also tweet endlessly, live on Facebook, hold everlasting court on Google +, podcast, blog, comment, and spend great gobs of money going to cons. No! The author's job is to write better books. Stephan Michael Loy has ten books in various stages of completion. He has self-published Last Days and Times, a gritty contemporary fantasy on the dangers of religious fanaticism, and Harmonic RES, a collection of short fiction in various genres. Both can be found as physical books and ebooks on Amazon.com. His futuristic political thriller, Conqueror's Realm, is in its final edits before self-publication. Steve Loy is busy. But not so busy that he doesn't have time for his angel of a wife, Amy, his Big Ol' Sweetie Petra the Prissy Greyhound, and his two grown-up sons, Mike and Joe. Because almost nobody makes a living as an author, Steve makes his as an art teacher in an Indianapolis elementary school.