The Rampart Guards: Chronicle One in the Adventures of Jason Lex

*** Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2016 ***

** Short-listed for Grand Prize, Eric Hoffer Awards **

** Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist **

A family legacy mired in mystery. A plot to unleash madness. Can Jason survive a barrage of life-threatening battles and save humanity?

Fourteen-year-old Jason Lex would like nothing more than to play basketball and hang with his friends. But when his mother disappears, leaving behind blood-soaked belongings, his world turns upside down. After being dragged to a boring town by his father, Jason's forced fresh start instead finds him afraid he's losing it after he's ambushed by bizarre flying creatures.

Thrust into a world once sequestered to the darkest corners of the Internet, he teams up with a new friend who has family secrets of her own. Jason's also stunned to learn mythological entities like Skyfish, Kappa, and the Mongolian Death Worm are real and live unseen alongside the human race. An invisible shield keeps these cryptids hidden and protects people from their threatening power. But shadowy forces are intent on the destruction of the shield - and all of humanity.

Jason may be the key to ending their deadly designs. Can he stop an onslaught of cryptid horrors before he and those he loves are incinerated? Confronted with loss, heartbreak, and a devastating betrayal, Jason combats the sinister faction but must make a gut-wrenching decision:

Who lives, and who dies.

Chronicle One: The Rampart Guards

Chronicle Two - Jason: The League of Governors

Chronicle Two - Sadie: The Clan Calling

Chronicle Three: The Forge of Bonds

Author: Wendy Terrien
Publisher: Camashea Press
Published: 02/25/2016
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780996903103
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Foreword 01/14/2016
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2016

About the Author
Terrien, Wendy: - International bestselling author Wendy Terrien received her first library card at age two, and a few years later started writing her own stories. She is Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' 2017 Independent Writer of the Year. Her debut novel, The Rampart Guards (February 2016), earned a Kirkus starred review and was named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2016. The novel is a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist, a Next Generation Indies Award Finalist, and is the first in her intriguing urban fantasy series. The next two chronicles in her Jason Lex Adventure series are The League of Governors and The Clan Calling (August 2017). In addition to her novels, Wendy published a short story, The Fate Stone, in the award-winning anthology Tick Tock: Seven Tales of Time (March 2016), and Light in the award-winning Off Beat: Nine Spins on Song (April 2017), both from Wicked Ink Books. Wendy graduated from the University of Utah (go Utes!) and transplanted to Colorado where she completed her MBA at the University of Denver. She focused her marketing expertise on the financial and technology industries until a career coach stepped in and reminded Wendy of her passion for writing. Wendy began attending writers' conferences, workshops, and retreats, and she hasn't stopped yet. She regularly participates in two critique groups and is the Secretary of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, and a member of Pikes Peak Writers. In 2014, Wendy was a finalist in the San Francisco Writer's Contest. Wendy lives in the Denver area with her husband, Kevin, and their three dogs: Maggie, Shea, and Boon. All of her dogs are rescues, and Wendy is passionate about promoting shelter adoptions. If you're in Colorado, you may even be able to spot her by her Adopt a Shelter Pet license plates.