Quintessence

About the Book

In Quintessence Journal Three: Resolution, we swiftly find the Neo-Earth nemeses have gained the upper hand over our intrepid heroes including The Five young men, two time-traveling muses, an adorable telepathic quadrapet, a mighty horse, and two damsels in distress. Our heroes’ greatest nemesis, the evil Musical Oligarchy Thralldom, has invented a hideous musical weapon powered by the Master Reckoner, a giant ‘thinking machine.’ This weapon, called the VOICE, will enslave the populace as zombies if the final component, the Diamond Stylus reaches completion. With this menace casting a long, deep shadow over the region, the fate of the entire Neo-Earth hinges on the five young men who remain unsure and untried in their own promised providences as the prophesied Five. With only a glimmer of their own potent musical power realized, the Five take on the Thralldom’s hordes of Tagents who search the region to overcome them and murder their beloved mentors one by one. This, the final installment of the Quintessence Trilogy quickly unfolds and maintains a fast-paced and astounding chronicle right to the final, rewarding—Resolution.

About the Author

Born and raised in rural New York, Neal R. Roll writes from a small farm he shares with his artist wife Karen in Genesee Falls of west-central New York. Retired after a career as an Air Force meteorologist, Neal attained a degree in meteorology and another in creative writing from Northern Michigan University. He has written nearly a hundred short stories besides a novel-length memoir, Take It from Me accounting Neal and Karen’s arduous process of building a house from scratch in the woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Neal delved into the preteen fantasy genre with his novella Moonchild, a story of a resident fairy befriending a young girl in early twentieth-century rural United States. Besides writing, Neal enjoys music as grandly visualized in his Quintessence Trilogy imagining a 1970’s Progressive Rock band battling a malevolent musical organization in a fantastic alternate time and place.