title: The Legacy Chronicle: The Sword, Vol. 1
author:  T.H. Paul 
description: T.H. (Trevor Howard) Paul is a private secondary school literature teacher at Hebron Academy in Hebron, Maine. T.H. has lived most of his life in Maine, though he did attend Wheaton College in Massachusetts and spent time living in Germany and the Peoples Republic of China. T.H. started working on the Legacy Chronicle when he was a freshman in high school, tasked with writing a serial story by his freshman English teacher, Ross Markonish. That story blossomed into a lengthier book, a deepening mythology, and even spawned his own variation on popular tabletop role-playing games, which was dubbed Ascension by one of his good friends and players in Tianjin, PRC. T.H. lives on the campus of Hebron Academy with his wife, Molly, and their dog, Zoe. When not writing he enjoys playing ice hockey, board and video games, drinking tea, and hoarding Legos he swears are for that aforementioned tabletop RPG he runs sometimes. This is his first novel and series; built from over fifteen years of tinkering, rewriting, frustration, and hope.
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  # Left For Dead
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Paul J. Teague
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Also by Paul J. Teague](part0002.html#1T140-3a6b2463241349fd9da200154da8eb1f)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Prologue](part0003.html#2RHM0-3a6b2463241349fd9da200154da8eb1f)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0004.html#3Q280-3a6b2463241349fd9da200154da8eb1f)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0005.html#4OIQ0-3a6b2463241349fd9da200154da8eb1f)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part0006.html#5N3C0-3a6b2463241349fd9da200154da8eb1f)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 4](part0007.html#6LJU0-3a6b2463241349fd9da200154da8eb1f)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 5](part0008.html#7K4G0-3a6b2463241349fd9da200154da8eb1f)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 6](part0009.html#8IL20-3a6b2463241349fd9da200154da8eb1f)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 7](part0010.html#9H5K0-3a6b2463241349fd9da200154da8eb1f)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 8](part0011.html#AFM60-3a6b2463241349fd9da200154da8eb1f)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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