Ranger Nader had always been ordinary enough: a kid with a gaming-gamer sister, cousins who saved him from boredom, and a grandfather who loved maritime tales. When a girl at the park slips him a crystal dog tag, a bolt of lightning wakes a lifetime of lineage: magnetite crystals in his bones, a set of Phoenician calling stones, and an impossible, two-bladed axe that whispers in his dreams.

By the time his parents vanish, Ranger's ordinary life has been replaced by a responsibility nobody warned him about-the Keepers' last line of defense for the Cedars of God. The axe is a relic from a war against Gilgamesh, a king who learned to steal the sun's wrath and made a corpse of the ancient forest. Now Gilgamesh is leaping through time, fueling himself on stolen lives. If Ranger doesn't learn to "be" the axe, the demi-god will take if from him and make Earth his furnace.

Ranger Nader & The Sunstruck Phantom has been honored with many awards. It was a finalist in the Indie Excellence Awards and the IAN and wont its category in the Global Book Awards and the International Book Awards.

"If Harry Potter were a Lebanese-American teen in the future, descended from Ancient Phoenicians, the plot for "Ranger Nader" would be the perfect blend of these stories." BookLifePrize.

"Five Stars! A superbly plotted magical adventure, stylishly and flamboyantly written." The Wishing Shelf.

Don't read another book where the kids got to school to become wizards; read one where they battle evil while training to crew a Guardian Ship, fight demi-gods, ALSO have magical powers, AND is based on local history and mythology.