Seventeen-year-old Kiam has spent the last five years watching his father slip away without ever leaving home, his mind trapped somewhere no one can reach.

That's when the visions began.

At first they were little more than flashes. Stray thoughts and fleeting images. But as Kiam's power grew stronger, the visions became impossible to escape.

They became doorways.

Hidden beneath the streets of Brooklyn lies an ancient world, where someone has been studying him.

Not to know him, but to use him.

Now Kiam must decide what kind of world he's willing to fight for, and what price he's prepared to pay.

Some worlds are saved by power alone.

This one is not.

The Mind Raider is Book One of a planned four-book series following Kiam and his friends — Leo, Ying, and Nev — through the world of Taenaria. Each book stays with all four, but belongs, in the end, to one of them. The Mind Raider is Kiam's.

The Mind Raider is published by Beyond Mirrors Press.

Ardrin writes about these ideas as they come up in his own life: in essays, in short newsletters, and occasionally in fiction.