For four hundred years, my family has been passing down the story of why our grandparents wrote, how they hid their children in the new world for safety from the Church, and how they hid their signatures in the greatest writings in the English language. They worked in secret and formed secret societies. As the Shakespeare folio was dedicated to the Incomparable Pair of Brethren""I am an Incomparable Descendant. There are thousands of us in America. This book follows the family tree of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Edward Devere to present day. It is a Roots meets National Treasure meets Da Vinci Code, filled with facts and clues left from hundreds of years ago to modern day that tells their story. This book is a legacy to my children and family. It is very valuable to any Freemason, Elizabethan historian, genealogist, or any American who is proud to be free! After sharing my story and comparing pictures of my family and Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Edward Devere, in college, the professor said, "You write that book and someone will make a movie out of it!" So the writing begins.

For four hundred years, my family has been passing down the story of why our grandparents wrote, how they hid their children in the new world for safety from the Church, and how they hid their signatures in the greatest writings in the English language. They worked in secret and formed secret societies. As the Shakespeare folio was dedicated to the Incomparable Pair of Brethren-I am an Incomparable Descendant. There are thousands of us in America. This book follows the family tree of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Edward Devere to present day. It is a Roots meets National Treasure meets Da Vinci Code, filled with facts and clues left from hundreds of years ago to modern day that tells their story. This book is a legacy to my children and family. It is very valuable to any Freemason, Elizabethan historian, genealogist, or any American who is proud to be free! After sharing my story and comparing pictures of my family and Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Edward Devere, in college, the professor said, "You write that book and someone will make a movie out of it!" So the writing begins.

“The Lost Kings” covers the period 16th-24th April 2021. It is a work of fiction, based on a re-interpretation of historical facts relating to the Royal Blood of the descendants of Jesus, known over the centuries as the ‘sang real’/Holy Grail. So in a sense it is a work of current/historical fiction/non-fiction spanning two millenia. It opens with the immediate aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, the direct descendant of King David and therefore the legitimate pretender to the throne of Israel as well as a Prophet of God. The book finishes with the installation of his direct descendant as Pope Jesus II, who after the passage of two millenia finally brings together the temporal and religious succession to both King David and Jesus. Our hero is David Whitecastle. He, like Ian Fleming and his creation James Bond, had a Scottish father and Swiss mother, attended Fettes College in Edinburgh, and was in a special unit of the armed forces. David is an Oxbridge graduate who joined Jardine Matheson, the Princely Hong immortalised both by its history as the most powerful foreign trading house in Asia, and more recently through the novels of the late James Clavel, whom I got to know and who initiated me into the dark art of story-telling. Through David, the reader meets the larger than life but enigmatic Monseigneur Sobieski, as well as the delightful Anna who turns out to be much more than just pleasing on the eye. The cast includes the 82 year old Madame Fatin who longs to share a secret which has eluded even the most ardent seekers of the hidden truths of Rennes-le-Chateau. Through her we meet the dyed-in-the-wool but confused SS colonel whose uncle Adolf Hitler has entrusted him with a family lineage quest of his own. She also reveals the secret identity and story of Marie who fathered twin sons whose offspring have the most legitimate claim to the throne of the Lost Kings. Then our journey takes us to the corridors of power in Paris and Vienna which have consistently sought out, adopted and used for their own ends the current representatives of the ancient bloodline of David. The book begins with an apparently open-and-shut homicide in the Vatican. But as the story unfolds it takes the reader on a truly secret and magical whirlwind tour of history, the world and Mankind itself, embracing the ancient Jewish Kingdom of Septimanie in southern France as well as the Visigoth, Merovingian, Carolingian and Habsburg dynasties. It is also a truly inside look at the machinations from its inception of the Church of Rome and its rival factions, through the eyes of some of the key people who have shaped European and world history, politics and religion. It transpires that there are two living descendants of the original undiluted bloodline, whose existence has not been revealed even to those who considered themselves its custodians and protectors over the centuries. The story culminates in a papal election where the two main contenders are, unbeknownst to themselves, the progeny of twin brothers and the current claimants to the most legitimate bloodline of the House of David. The book finishes on an upbeat note. It seems that the winds of change may finally be beginning to blow away the ancient cobwebs which over the centuries have blighted even the most high-minded of religious leaders and organisations, and so in turn failed to fulfil what the average person expects and needs from them. The book is intended to give readers a new, refreshing, but provocative interpretation of the evolution of our culture and civilisation, and in the process stimulate the little grey cells and encourage each one of us to critically and conscientiously re-appraise some of the supposedly self-evident truths which we have taken for granted. It is my hope that this will lead to greater awareness and understanding of ourselves and our place in things. I also hope that this cocktail of light-hearted banter, unexpected love, adventure, mystery, deceit, and epicurean delights will also allow the reader to have fun in the process.

Reveals the true role of James, the brother of Jesus, in early Christianity • Uses evidence from the canonical Gospels, apocryphal texts, and the writings of the Church Fathers to reveal the teachings of Jesus as transmitted to his chosen successor: James • Demonstrates how the core message in the teachings of Jesus is an expansion not a repudiation of the Jewish religion • Shows how James can serve as a bridge between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam James has been a subject of controversy since the founding of the Church. Evidence that Jesus had siblings contradicts Church dogma on the virgin birth, and James is also a symbol of Christian teachings that have been obscured. While Peter is traditionally thought of as the leader of the apostles and the “rock” on which Jesus built his church, Jeffrey Bütz shows that it was James who led the disciples after the crucifixion. It was James, not Peter, who guided them through the Church's first major theological crisis--Paul's interpretation of the teachings of Jesus. Using the canonical Gospels, writings of the Church Fathers, and apocryphal texts, Bütz argues that James is the most overlooked figure in the history of the Church. He shows how the core teachings of Jesus are firmly rooted in Hebraic tradition; reveals the bitter battles between James and Paul for ideological supremacy in the early Church; and explains how Paul's interpretations, which became the foundation of the Church, are in many ways its betrayal. Bütz reveals a picture of Christianity and the true meaning of Christ's message that are sometimes at odds with established Christian doctrine and concludes that James can serve as a desperately needed missing link between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam to heal the wounds of centuries of enmity.

A graphic novel edition of The Mystery Knight, one of the thrilling Dunk and Egg novellas from George R. R. Martin’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and a prequel of sorts to A Game of Thrones “Every wedding needs a singer, and every tourney needs a mystery knight.” Westeros is eerily peaceful. King Aerys I sits on the Iron Throne. A ravaging plague has abated. Yet beneath the surface, tensions linger sixteen years after a failed rebellion. In these restless times, noble hedge knight Ser Duncan the Tall—Dunk, to his friends—and his precocious boy squire, Egg, travel the Seven Kingdoms performing chivalrous deeds, though Egg’s bloodline must be concealed at all costs. After heading north for Winterfell, Dunk and Egg are lured off the kingsroad by a wedding feast—and an unusually lucrative tournament. The champion jouster will claim a rare trophy indeed: a dragon’s egg. Dunk, always better in a melee, would be satisfied with a hot meal, a cup of wine, and a purse full of coins. But a treasonous plot is more likely to hatch before another dragon ever stretches its wings. Someone’s on to Egg. And a mystery knight with designs on an even bigger prize soon throws the entire affair into chaos.

Seven years after the events of The Shadow Dragons, John, Jack and Charles are finally able to return to their beloved Archipedlago of Dreams. But even as their return is celebrated by old friends, new concerns shadow the reunion, namely the threat of Echthroi, the primordial Shadow, but, perhaps even worse, the apparent splintering of Time itself. Now, the Caretakers must fight against their most fearsome enemy ever and attempt to restore Time. They must journey through a forgotten door from the destroyed Keep of Time in order to seek out the Dragon's Apprentice. If they fail, it will mean the end of both of the worlds. But success will carry its own price - a price that may be too high even for the Caretakers to bear.

A collection of essays on the Deresthai culture with accompanying extracts from the Dragon Court archives comprising the official history of the Dragon peoples.