Description:
Two teenagers vanish from 1972 and awaken in AD 972 - a world a thousand years too old that already knows their names. Book One of the Royal Mage Chronicles, a mythic fantasy of time, ancient fire, and family.
Brief description: J. Michael Siencyn writes mythic fiction forged in fire, memory, and time.A lifelong student of ancient story patterns, sacred symbols, and inner strength, Michael draws from decades of leadership, legacy, and lived experience to tell tales that echo across worlds.Born in Alabama, tempered in the United States Air Force, and seasoned as a visionary executive in the world of industrial manufacturing and innovation, he now turns his attention to something deeper: the enduring power of story.His writing blends rich character arcs, emotional truth, and spiritual mystery with sweeping generational epics. He is the creator of the Royal Mage Chronicles, a series shaped by themes of fate, legacy, friendship, and sacrifice.Additional works continue expanding the mythic and historical framework surrounding the Royal Mage Chronicles. Through the Companion Prequel Series and The Decker Diaries, Michael explores hidden histories, spiritual mysteries, ancient bloodlines, and the unseen forces moving beneath the surface of recorded history.Whether writing epic fantasy, companion mythology, historical fiction or historically grounded military and intelligence thrillers, Michael's stories are bound together by a common thread: ordinary people confronting extraordinary truths that challenge identity, destiny, faith, and the nature of reality itself.The Decker Diaries follows Robert Decker's rise from 1948 West Point graduate to military intelligence operative and ultimately Chief of Security for the Royal Mage Foundation in 1974, as hidden wars, geopolitical upheaval, ancient mysteries, and unseen spiritual forces shape history behind the veil of the modern world-where, in humanity's deepest primordial frontiers, ancient resonances still echo.Michael writes under the pen name J. Michael Siencyn, an echo of his Welsh ancestral name. He is a husband of forty-three years, a father, a thinker, and a man who remembers what needs to be told.