The Warrior of Elamor (Saga of Zel-Elcon Book 1)

The beautiful world of Terra-Cova has become the prison for Quygon, the outcast general from a secret kingdom. Locked for eons in the blackness of the Caverns of Ness, he is driven forever insane by the bitter grief of his own loss.
Above him on the surface, men live their lives unaware of the evil beast below. Quygon, however, is well aware of the movement above and has developed an unquenchable addiction to the smell coming from the blood of man, and will do anything to consume it.
Slowly, man becomes aware of the bleak heaviness covering their world, but ignores its dread. Villagers then begin to disappear and entire tribes vanish. Rumors echo across the land that a grotesque Horde of twisted, dead warriors are sweeping across their world, leaving those who survive terror struck and hopeless.
In a tucked away and forgotten village called Payne, life comes to a lonely man. A blacksmith named Eli meets a soft-spoken, bubbly young woman by the name of Shaira. It is this chance meeting and developing love that creates a child of destiny, The Warrior of Elamor.
As the child grows, he is quietly trained by forces true to a Kingdom well beyond the realms of Terra-Cova. The chosen boy, Jesse, lives a life of security until an event shakes his whole world. Before his and his mother’s very own eyes, his father is brutally murdered. Jesse’s once lively mother, is now empty and speechless and Quygon has marked him as the number one man in his world to kill.
The Kingdom of Elamor withdraws its Secret Guardians and now the young man Jesse must rise up and take his place as protector of his world. Jesse must become a champion and, The Warrior of Elamor.