WIND, Book 1 – INTRODUCTION
In the far, far away past there was a warrior tribe called the Tor’ocs. Every Tor’oc man, woman and child was part of this army of nomads. They knew how to do one thing – how to conquer – and they knew how to do it well. They would take a city, a town, a valley, and drain it of every resource the people had, and when the people could give no more, the Tor’ocs moved on. They were great horsemen, but they did not make their own saddles, and they could not forge the steel to make weapons. They could not cook; they could not spin thread to make cloths; they did not make the tents they slept in. But they were strong, and they were fierce. And they were hungry for what lay beyond the horizon. That was their weakness.
Their legendary war chief, Sumon heard tales of fantastic wealth to be taken in a peninsula at the edge of the land they had conquered, Aemira. The Tor’oc army rode onto this peninsula that jutted out between two enormous seas. When they arrived, the land became cut off on either side by a raging river made from the two seas – and the peninsula suddenly became an island. After that happened, flood waters rushed across the land drowning their leader, Sumon, along with almost all the Tor’oc nation. Only two hundred of the tribe, mostly children, survived by taking to the trees when the waters came. The trees became their salvation, their only true haven. They could not navigate the wild waters to leave, and the floods returned in force every year. Over time, the survivors made their lives in the trees, and built houses and bridges and meeting halls – their City in the Trees. Over the next one thousand years, the trees changed them, changed them to the core of who they were. They were still large and strong and knew how to fight, but deep inside, they were different.
This is when the story of Wind starts — 1,000 years after the Tor’ocs were cut off from the Out World — when Aemira needs one of the Tor‘ocs to return to their land. They need one special one — the one the Tor’ocs call, Aeon the Leaf.
2025
Upcoming 2026
The UN-WINDING – Book 2
Unfolding in two voices, this story is told by Aeon the Leaf, and by Uthiriul, a Tor’oc he’s known since childhood. Their strong personalities cannot be more different — he is thoughtful, a mystic, born to that philosophy; she is fierce, a natural born warrior. The two plunge forward on a collision course — a course towards war. Aeon falls further into the dark side of his character, while Uthiriul rises towards the light, becoming the leader of Aemira’s armies — but the responsibility of the role weighs heavily on her.
Upcoming 2027
The ONLY WAY BACK – Book 3
This is a book of war. The fate of Aemira hangs in the hands of two charismatic, powerful Tor’ocs who find themselves bound to unleash the very acts that Tor’ocs are raised never to do — to destroy each other and anyone who follows them.
The French Edition
WIND
Le Peuple du Vent
Publication Premiere: Paris & St. Remy,
April 2025
Editions Massot
17 rue de Buci
75006 Paris, France
Tor’oc Trilogy Events
4/10/25 – WIND, Le Peuple du Vent Premiere, FNAC Bookstores, Les Halles, FR
5/5/25 – Author Talk & short film, 8 PM, Cinepalace, 4 av. Fauconnet, St. Remy de Provence, FR