The Crystal Crux Series tale unfolds in ten days over five books.
Betrayal
Blue Grotto
Cold Knight
Shimmer
Beautiful
Today, August 13, 2026
is exactly 828 years after the first day in my book series.
In the year 1198, it would have been a Friday
Friday the 13th.
I decided early on to begin each day of the series with a scripture I felt sort of captured the essence of something major happening in the story on that day.
On DAY ONE, we see Pero de Alava being betrayed. We see that the world doesn’t change to suit the purposes of the good or the evil. They all have to deal with the same terrain and environment.
I will be counting down all ten days in row this week and I will offer up one of my favorite paragraphs from each day.
The excerpt below is when Pero feels like he’s reached rock bottom. The whole day has been miserable. Nothing has gone right.
After breaking off his engagement, turning his back on his people at Capua, getting chased by wild animals through a cursed forest, his horse dies.
Pero is lost in the middle of nowhere without anymore options.
Pero’s sorrow reached a new low. Heavy with loss, he could not lift his head. The magnanimous beast had sacrificed her life to save his. And with her death, Pero knew his sever with the past was complete. Zaon was the final marker of who and what he was before today. There was nothing left of Pero of Penafiel. From this moment forward, he possessed nothing but that which he had on his back, bereft of titles, land and inheritance. He has free from all his duties. Free from his friendships. Free from his oaths. He was no one. A sad, miserable bitter man with a spiteful distaste for God.
Pero vomited.
Excerpt from Betrayal
I’ll be back tomorrow to post something from Day Two.
Until then, stay inspired and keep reading!
Author Allen M Werner 
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