Luna Rising: The Full Saga (Volumes 1-3)

This 130,000-word “full saga” includes ALL THREE BOOKS of the Luna Rising trilogy and is provided at a discount price compared to buying each volume separately. Also note that the 3 volumes are available separately on Kindle Unlimited.

Is it a curse to be too brilliant? For Tony it is. He finishes school at fifteen and dives into a career designing complex video games. By the time he’s nineteen, he’s burned out like a man three times his age. And he’s lonely. He wants out. He yearns for a world filled with real people and not avatars. His father who died when he was a kid used to talk to him about his homeland, Sicily, and how his family, the Lunas, fought many battles in the Middle Ages, making a name for themselves and a big fortune on the way - a fortune that however vanished in the early 1900s, leaving his father penniless.

Tony sets off for Sicily. Walking around the old town of Syracuse, he drifts into a palazzo with a strange name over the door, the “Circle of Conversation”, filled with people in disguise. But this is no costume ball. The Circle is a place out of Time, dark and humid, where the ghosts of his ancestors mill about and converse, waiting for Judgment Day – among them, a beautiful woman with deep, black eyes that promise love. But the door slams shut behind him, Tony is trapped. His trip to Sicily, meant as a simple voyage of self-discovery, has turned into a nightmare. How can he shake off the past and find himself?

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NOTE TO THE READER: This is a revised edition (with two new chapters) of a trilogy originally published under the title “Fear of the Past” and subsequently re-titled “The Phoenix Heritage”. When the first book in the trilogy was published in Sicily as a self-standing novel, it met with enthusiastic praise in the local press where it was likened to “dreaming with open eyes through Time” (Pino Nucifora in Diario di Siracusa) and described as “fantastic, surreal, meta-psychical, out of time and reality” (Arturo Messina in Libertà). This encouraged the author to re-write the story in English and expand it to a trilogy.

PRAISE from American readers (excerpts):

“The Harry Potter for adults and teens looking for fantasy, romance and history rolled into one. It’s a page turner…” (P. Inez Erica Impie)

“A bit Alice in Wonderland, a bit Dante’s Inferno, and a lot about coming of age and self-discovery…” (Author Joseph Badal)

“History and romance intertwined in a fantasy setting…The story is unique, enjoyable, plus it’s well-written…definitely for me one of my best reads.” (Yla Delarosa)

“Symbolic of universal emotions and human foibles, sometimes making them larger than life…This book will read easily and keep you thinking.” (Author Karen Rose Smith)

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LUNA RISING is now available as follows:

Volume 1: The Circle of Conversation – Can you love a ghost? Tony’s adventure in the Circle leads him where no man has been before;

Volume 2: Villa Luna – Tony falls back in time and discovers the tragedy that befell the House of Luna in 1908; can he change the family destiny?

Volume 3: The ChatKlub – Tony battles the odds to conquer the woman he loves and defend his start-up from the greed of the Sicilian and Russian Mafia; can he shake off the past and catch the future?