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Peace of the Dying In the ancient port city of Ostia, Theocles a wealthy sailor sacrificed his first child Cirrus to a temple before his birth. In company of the treasured child was a blessing and a curse upon his household, the fate and true identity of the child remains a mystery both to him and the temple. The temple was troubled when they discover a mystifying power behind the child which stirred a battle between the altar and the sacrificed. The story is an adventure, a riddle and a journey unraveling the true power and fate of the sacrificed. Plotted on the map of the ancient Mediterranean world, The Altar and The Sacrificed [Peace of the dying] is a brainteaser, a mystery of a god sacrificed on an altar beneath him, a struggle against fate and flesh, blood and prophesies.

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D. D. Reng (B.A English) is an editor, a talented storyteller and poet at Eagle Eye News Media. He has written and published poems and articles in the local magazine. ´The Altar and The Sacrifice [Peace of the Dying] is his first novel to be published, an exceptional work of art.

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