Title: Redemption Author: Keira  Ramsey Publisher: Liquid Silver Books Genre:Urban Fantasy Publication date:March 2007 Pages:106 Series:Terran Realm   Heat Level:     Rating:

Earth is not home only to humanity and wildlife, to the plant, animal, and mineral kingdoms. Earth also holds the Terran Realm, a covert location which houses the Terrans, a species above and beyond time who guard Earth from supernatural evil, maintaining the planet's collective consciousness. Terran Keepers work with the elements of Air, Earth, Fire, Water, and Spirit to maintain the balance against the Destroyer who intend to annihilate life. A Talisman Terran is a special brand of Keeper, born only rarely, who can not only work with his or her element, but actually control it. They appear so rarely as to be almost forgotten myth.

A century after the tragedy of Gettysburg, one such will appear: a Spirit Talisman, in the New World, who must set matters right and restore the imbalance using the sacred book Sorhineth. Born as a member of Clan Kennedy, this Talisman will be forced into battle against the Destroyer, in the great pyramid of San Francisco's TransAmerica Building. Now one of the Protectors, Donovan Callahan, nearly a century old, intuits the compulsion to begin to help restore the balance of Earth as well, against the increasing inertia and apathy of the Terrans over the past century, while the status quo was deemed sufficient.

Redemption is an exciting contemporary mythological fantasy in a new series, Terran Realm. Author Keira Ramsey demonstrates her gift for dialogue, character, and especially world-building, as she creates a very viable and vividly descriptive new background to reality as we tend to perceive it. The plot line is fast-paced, and readers will immediately discover Redemption is a true page-turner and a story not to be put down. This is a definite choice for one's Keeper Shelf.