title: Legends Reborn (The Light of Epertase, Book One)
author:  Douglas R. Brown 
description: <DIV>Douglas R. Brown is a fantasy writer who lives in Pataskala, Ohio. He began writing more than five years ago as a cathartic way of dealing with the day-to-day stresses of life as a firefighter and paramedic for the Columbus Ohio Division of Fire. Now he focuses his writing on fantasy, where he draws on his lifelong love of the genre.</DIV>
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  # The Beautiful and Damned
  
  
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  ### F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
  
  
  
  
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  # BOOK ONE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### ANTHONY PATCH
  
  
  In 1913, when Anthony 