the Choice of Merlin: A Tale About Greatest All Powers

In a Britain of a winter without king, without law, and without hope, a child is born. Abandoned by the roadside, nameless, fatherless, with no destiny laid out, the boy is raised by a brutish blacksmith and a pious seamstress who teaches him to keep secrets. Called Merlin, the boy discovers, while still young, that he carries a power capable of entering others' dreams and healing bodies, but also of destroying entire lives with a single lapse in the control of his emotions.But every power has a price, and Merlin learns this through shame and guilt over the pain he himself caused someone he never wished to see suffer.Years later, faced with a sword driven into stone and the promise of a crown, Merlin will confront the hardest choice of his life: yield to his strongest desire, or fulfill his duty.The Choice of Merlin is an original reinvention of the story of Western literature's most celebrated wizard - not as a sage who always knew the way, but as a young man who had to lose everything to find his true purpose. In the lyrical, cadenced prose of David Ben Schwantes, every sentence carries the weight of an ancient fable and the intimacy of a confession. A narrative that weaves together Arthurian mythology, a moral journey, and an almost biblical sensitivity toward power, guilt, and redemption.A brief, dense tale to read in an hour - and to reread again and again over the course of a lifetime.If you appreciate original retellings of classic legends, with psychological and spiritual depth, in the vein of works that revisit myths to illuminate profoundly human dilemmas, this story was written for you.