Half Breeds
The Curse of the Amber Witch
Author acknowledgment
Thank you to my family for helping bring this series to life—I only wish you could all be here to read it. Special thanks to my grandmother for her support, my parents for their ideas and help, My cousin for building the website, and to Emily, who always believed in me. I'm deeply grateful to Conrad William for his mentorship, Jonathan Oliver for editing, Alejandro Colucci for the stunning cover, Travis Hasenour for creating the beautiful map and The Cambridge Book Publishing Company have brought this book in to your world. Half-Breeds wouldn't exist without you all. Thank you.
Story Teaser
In a kingdom where power is inherited but loyalty is earned, the royal family stands on the brink of upheaval. As Princess Keana approaches adulthood, her ascension threatens to expose long‑buried rivalries within the palace and ignite unrest far beyond its walls. The nobles manoeuvre for influence, the servants whisper of change, and the common folk grow restless under the weight of widening inequality.
Amid rising tensions, every choice Keana makes becomes a spark in a realm already primed to burn. Her coming‑of‑age is no longer a ceremonial passage, but a turning point that will decide whether the kingdom fractures under the strain of its own hierarchy — or rises to forge a new order.
A Realm Built on Lies, Cracks, and Quiet Rebellion
The kingdom’s history is not a clean line but a fractured timeline of competing truths, each shaped by the eyes that witnessed it. Every character carries their own version of events, and when these perspectives overlap, the illusion of unity begins to unravel. What once looked like a proud lineage reveals itself as a carefully curated myth — a story rewritten by those in power to keep the rest of the realm obedient.
The ruling elite have long hidden their corruption behind a shimmering veil of culture and divinity. Drawing inspiration from ancient Mediterranean ideals, they crafted a vision of a perfect society: harmonious, enlightened, guided by noble principles. But this utopia is a façade. Its beauty is a mask stretched thin over centuries of exploitation, political manipulation, and the quiet suffering of the lower classes.
To maintain control, the monarchy constructed a pantheon of deities — symbols of justice, wisdom, and prosperity. These gods are not worshipped out of faith, but out of necessity. They are tools of governance, invoked to justify decisions that benefit the few while binding the many in ritual and fear. Each temple sermon reinforces the same message: the gods favour order, obedience, and the hierarchy that keeps the nobles in power.
But the cracks are widening.
Whispers of rebellion echo through the markets and servant halls. The people have begun to see the truth behind the divine masks, recognising the gods as instruments of control rather than protectors. As the timelines of the characters intersect, their experiences expose the rot at the kingdom’s core — the lies told to maintain power, the histories rewritten to erase dissent, and the suffering endured by those deemed unworthy of a voice.
The realm stands on the edge of a reckoning. The myths that once held it together are losing their power, and the rebellion rising from the lower classes threatens to tear apart the illusion of utopia. In this world, truth is dangerous, faith is political, and every act of defiance — no matter how small — becomes a spark in a kingdom ready to ignite.
H.C.Hart on Writing Half Breeds
`The writing process for Half‑Breeds has been a long, winding journey — one that began with a dream at the age of thirteen. What started as a fleeting image stayed with H. C. Hart, growing and reshaping itself as she did. Over the years, she returned to the story again and again, stopping, restarting, and re‑examining it as she tried to understand life, hardship, and the complexities of the human mind.
A period of growth, doubt, and rediscovery followed. Hart held onto the belief that she wasn’t yet mature enough to tell this story the way it deserved to be told. She needed time to understand people, their motivations, their wounds, and the quiet battles they carry. Only then could she write characters who felt real.
Keana’s perspective came first. Hart explored her innocence, her sheltered world, and the transformation that awaited her. But as the story deepened, Hart realised there was far more to this world than a single viewpoint could hold. New characters emerged, each carrying a piece of the truth, each revealing another layer of the world’s political tensions, cultural myths, and hidden fractures. Whenever she reached a dead end, she revised, re‑imagined, and allowed the story to grow in unexpected directions.
For nineteen years, Half‑Breeds lived in notebooks, half‑finished drafts, and the quiet corners of H. C. Hart’s imagination. Born from a dream at thirteen, the story grew alongside her — reshaped by every hardship, every lesson, every moment of understanding about what it truly means to be human.
Now, after nearly two decades, the world of Half‑Breeds is finally ready to be shared.
✨ A princess on the edge of transformation
✨ A guard fighting the weight of expectation
✨ A servant boy whose quiet presence changes everything
✨ A kingdom built on myth, corruption, and the illusion of utopia
Hart began with Keana’s voice, but soon realised one perspective could never hold the truth of a world cracking under its own history. Characters emerged, timelines overlapped, and the story deepened into something far more complex than she first imagined.
Half-Breeds The Prophecy's of Tanit
Publishing late 2027
Helios
The Beginning of the Manthis Dynasty
Djoser Manthis was a young boy when the great flood killed half the population of Terra, him and his people survived because of there creator Bastet who warned them ahead of time using her magic to tell them a flood was coming and too head to the highest peak of Helios, they were so far in land however that the flood did not catch them, only the river flooded. By 329LA the villagers off the mountains would settle down in the flat lands off Helios.
There was panic for days, claiming that the end of the world was happening when Kanta arrived on the peak with her brother Hamibal. The son and daughter of the late King Kantos. Soon after more Atherian Dami Aquila arrived with as many humans as they could carry. The farmers turned to Kanta for guidance. She told them of the battle and of her brother Bion who had betrayed them all. She founded the Kanta cave were the Atherian guards would congregate. Deciding they would need leadership. Kanta created the Six Gods religion and the people of Helios followed their lead. When the floodwaters receded the farmers went back to their daily tasks. Genus, Faun, Aquila and human alike. Eventually the Syrians would swim upriver and inform the Aquila of what was happening in other lands.
Djoser grew into a strong young man his family of Genus became loved in their small community. Everyone was equal until the night came, children began to go missing from their beds, and the southern forest was where the trail ended. When Djosr’s own son Mortu was taken. He gathered what man he could and led the party into the forest to find them, Kanta was amongst them. Djoser became the hero bringing back the surviving children, unfortunately his own wasn't amongst them, collapsing the tunnel and killing many Aracnids. The kind would eventually fall into myth.
Kanta so leadership potential in him and brought it before the council that he was to be The first king of Helios which the people supported. And so, the Manthis Dynasty was born.
Djoser Manthis Born 306LA – Died 365LA
Djoser was the first king and line will travel through eighteen generations down to King Rocon who was killed in the battle of Silva Forest and his own brother King Abraxis took over. Were our story first begins 814BN.
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