title: A Rising Darkness: Book 1 of the Hand of Justice
author:  Nikki Dorakis 
description: I have been writing for a number of years always hoping that one day I would publish. When I first wrote A Rising Darkness it was called The Eye of Zoar. "The Eye" was originally intended to refer to the magical name for Meriq's skill. The original manuscript, together with the storage discs were lost during my move from Saudi Arabia back to England and it has taken me sometime to re-write it . . . I have deliberately avoided the use of words like 'telepathy' and 'telekinesis' as these our "our words" and have no place in Zetaria. I have called candles 'lightsticks' and made other changes for the same reasons - to try to create sense of a culture alien to our own. My work as a psychiatric nurse has always taken precedence until at the ripe old age of fifty-five, I decided to retire and go part-time so that I could work on my books. I am a Pagan priest and an ordained minister of the Church of Spiritual Humanism and I write as far as possible drawing on the myths and legends of my own faith and those of the various priests and shamans I have encountered in my travels. Iwrites for pleasure and now I want to share that pleasure with my readers. I hope this brings you as much enjoyment in the reading of it as it gave me in the writing of it.
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  _A crescendo of evil could destroy their perfect harmony._
  
   _The Gray Court, Book 5_
  
  Oberon is well and truly lost, with no memory of who he is, where he came
  from, or where he’s going. One woman makes his palms sweat and his heart race,
  a woman with turquoise eyes and a beautiful voice. Instinct tells him she’s
  the only one who can save him.
  
  Cassie knows the truth—he is the High King, her truebond, the one man born to
  be hers and hers alone. Restoring his memory and keeping him out of the Black
  Court’s clutches is her mission, though success means losing him. Yet to give
  the world back its High King, she will make that sacrifice.
  
  As soon as Oberon’s memory comes crashing back through his mind’s closed door,
  he makes one vow. Though beset by enemies, chased and attacked, he will return
  to his rightful place with his Queen by his side.
  
  Except when he makes good on his vow, all hell breaks loose. And when Cassie’s
  life is threatened, the fae world will b