Publisher's Synopsis
Departing Raja-Sharan with his comrades, a forever-changed Rupert begins his odyssey towards his distant home. In exotic Agadeshloo, the Golden-Eyed Princes encounters Komo, a formidable warrior masking a horrific history. When he refuses to join them, they sail on to remote Narkesha. Though surviving shipboard peril, Rupert is confronted with an alarming state of affairs: a queen demanding that children be sacrificed to quell looming volcanoes. While repelled by such ruthlessness, the boy resolves to remain aloof from foreign entanglements. Yet an irresistible fascination with baffling ancient monuments soon has Rupert enthralled...unwitting unleashing a catastrophic chain of events that will eternally alter the country, its inhabitants, and the comrades path. And the prince previously hailed as a hero, becomes reviled as a bringer of darkness. 'The Prophet of Doom' reveals a maturing Rupert, struggling to harness his dazzling mystical gifts. The ensuing conflict between passion and power delivers not only jeopardy, but the beguiling promise of unimagined enlightenment.