Ancient Ways
by W. Wayne Lautt

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Ancient Ways is the first book in the Grimes Trilogy. When young Grimes loses his mother and siblings in a suspicious accident, his eccentric professor father raises him in a secluded mountaintop community of academics called the Retreat. As he comes of age, he learns he is no ordinary boy—he is actually a member of a secret race called the Ancients. Using his enhanced powers of perception, he is trained in the arts of combat, science, and wilderness survival to reach his full potential. On his quest to discover his true destiny he seeks out a reclusive wise man known as Mentor, who warns him of the evil Sarcigen Empire that threatens the very existence of their race. When Grimes meets a fellow Ancient, the enchanting Elsay, they fall in love, but their peace and happiness are short-lived. The brutal Sarcigens are on their trail, intent on winning a war that has been brewing for hundreds of years. Joining forces with Willyum the Bushman, a logger with a mysterious past, they must attempt to escape to the northern Kingdom of the United Princedoms of Koramar, which is the setting for Book 2, Koramarian Ways.

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W. WAYNE LAUTT is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba and has written over 200 publications, receiving national and international awards for research and teaching. He first told fictional tales of Grimes to his children, Kelly and Mick, as bedtime stories in 1977 while teaching them how to survive in the wild. He has since been writing the trilogy for decades to take breaks from writing scientific articles. Wayne lives in Vancouver, BC, on the banks of the Fraser River with his high school sweetheart, Melanie. Wayne has worked as an educator and a medical researcher, as well as founding a biotech startup, SciMar, in 2009, to bring to market, discoveries made as an academic. He is still actively publishing in the scientific field.

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