Cernon, The Genesis of Paradigm Lost

Cernon's arrival in the Founder's Glade began a new era in human history. The Sophia Shaman journeys with Cernon. Thousands of years ago, Sophia and Cernon discover a tribe on the verge of extinction. Sophia decides to help the tribe. When she stops to think, she wonders, did she start something rolling along the waves of time, or did the waves of time capture her as a tool to shape the world?

The Sophia Shaman, famed from the Jamari Days, decides to journey with Cernon, a Cernunnos spirit-form to learn about his beginning. The journey nearly destroys her but she quickly recovers. In a time so far back that time hadn't been invented yet, they enounter a tribe on the verge of extinction due to an encroaching ice age. Sophia sets out to help this new people. Then she realizes something profound - did she journey to discover Cernon's beginning, or was she called to create it? During a spiritual joining with the tribe's Vision Seeker, another seeker is awakened to the spirit world. Then the spirit seekers join with the spirits themselves in an unexpected joining. What comes of that union will alter the course of history - all the way up to a thousand years AFTER The Sophia has entered her own time in the Spirit World. This novella is intended to be the first point of contact for new readers to the world of R. Roderick Rowe. Step into this imaginative adventure - but only if you dare to risk a profound change in how you percieve your role as a human being!

The author recommends this as a great jumping off point into the world of Paradigm Lost which has a completed trilogy, Jamari and the Manhood Rites; a stand-alone novel which will become a collection of stand-alones, Heretic a novel of The Lost in Legend Collection; and two Erotica Novels Eros Times and Night Studies.