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In the Eye of Heaven is book one of David Keck's acclaimed and gritty epic fantasy Eye of Heaven trilogyDurand is simply a good squire trying to become a good knight in a harsh and unforgiving world.After fourteen years of grueling training, Durand's knighthood and inheritance, the lordship of a small village in his father's duchy, seemed assured. However, Fate saw otherwise. When the long lost son of the knight of that village unexpectedly returns, Durand must forge his own name and fortune. Disgraced sons, treacherous dukes, plots of murder, and banished monsters -- what begins as a young man's journey to self-discovery quickly turns into a quest to save the World of Man.
About the Author
David Keck is a New York based writer and teacher who grew up in Winnipeg, Canada. His novels are published by Tor. On long winter evenings, he filled pads of newsprint with drawings, cartoons, and stories. His mother made him write on both sides. After completing degrees in English Literature/History and Education in Winnipeg, he traveled to Britain's University of Sussex where he earned an MA in creative writing and indulged his taste for exploring the medieval and the Neolithic. Over the years, he has had the chance to climb through countless castles, cathedrals, tombs, and henges from the South of France to the Orkney Islands. There is something about really being in these places--getting chased by the farmer's dog--that brings the past to life. David loves to dig up stories that show traces of earlier ways of thinking. He's endlessly curious about how people actually lived in other times and places, and he wants his readers to join him in an older, stranger world. In 2004, he moved to New York to marry editor and author Anne Groell. They met in Montreal at the World Fantasy Convention in 2001, and now have an intrepid young daughter together. For twelve years, he has been teaching English at a public middle school in Washington Heights. He tries to bring his drawings and his imagination to every class, and has become a great proponent of educational technology. From the streets around the school, you can often see the tower of The Met Cloisters museum, with its medieval treasures, peeking out above the trees. The past is never far away. David recently fulfilled his childhood ambition of getting his cartoons into print, placing work with The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Analog Magazine, and Random House's Suvudu website, before it became Unbound Worlds. He currently enjoys populating snapshots of New York's subways, streets, and secret forests with pop-eyed monsters. But, in his fiction, a reader will find the darker side of his imagination.
