Night Owl is a story, similar in genre to Harry Potter and Twilight (only the good parts, hopefully).
Night Owl is the story of Jared Melendez, who has struggled with his life until he moves to Tonawanda, New York from Cleveland, Ohio. Prepared to be self-sufficient and responsible upon arrival, Jared already has it easy, as his father, with who he is now living, recently won the lottery of $25 million. He is given a car and a job, two(ish) luxuries he didn't have in Ohio. But his job quickly becomes boring, and he spends 7 out of 8 hours of his workday working on short stories, a hobby of his.
Then, one night as he is on his way home from work, he sees an owl he thinks is dead lying in the middle of the street. He is a bird lover, and wants to bury it properly rather than leaving it strewn in the street. But when he is ready to do so, the owl disappears. It had been alive, but why it lay playing dead in the middle of the street is a mystery to Jared.
Later that night, as he sleeps, he hears an owl's hoot at his window. He lets it in, and it morphs into Patroller, a member of the Eastern Clan, one of four clans of Native Americans who were killed by birds of prey in bizarre rituals during the Exploration of the Americas in the sixteenth century.
Patroller is, as it turns out, a shape-shifting half-owl, half-human, as are all mebers of the Eastern Clan.
Their mission is to restore peace to the Union of the Clans, the Northern (Bald eagles), the Southern (vultures), the Eastern (owls), and the Western (Peregrine falcons). The Union spans the entire North American continent.
A battle over territory has erupted between the Eastern and Western Clans, and the East is in desperate need of new members. Jared has been recruited for his passion and respect for animals.
However, the Western Clan threatens to ecologically crowd out mankind from the continent by reproducing and recruiting new members in massive numbers.
Jared accepts membership, but this means he must throw away his new life, and start yet again, as a half-human, half-owl, and must be ready to defend the continent and return the Union to its original state.
Jared meets several new people, and joins the fight for the continent.
There will be much more to the story, and if the reception by friends and family is good enough, then I will write a sequel, to be called Swift Eagle.
Opinions? Comments? Criticism? They're all welcome.
THANK YOU!!
There is much more to the story, i just didn't want to reveal too many details!
And Jared decides to defend the continent because he realizes that he has the chance to save humanity.
There are several other characters vital to the storyline. Again, I didn't want to reveal too many details.
One major theme is values and appreciating the important things in life like family, and choosing between staying in your current life or leaving it to defend a greater good, like the safety of all humanity.
Night Owl is the story of Jared Melendez, who has struggled with his life until he moves to Tonawanda, New York from Cleveland, Ohio. Prepared to be self-sufficient and responsible upon arrival, Jared already has it easy, as his father, with who he is now living, recently won the lottery of $25 million. He is given a car and a job, two(ish) luxuries he didn't have in Ohio. But his job quickly becomes boring, and he spends 7 out of 8 hours of his workday working on short stories, a hobby of his.
Then, one night as he is on his way home from work, he sees an owl he thinks is dead lying in the middle of the street. He is a bird lover, and wants to bury it properly rather than leaving it strewn in the street. But when he is ready to do so, the owl disappears. It had been alive, but why it lay playing dead in the middle of the street is a mystery to Jared.
Later that night, as he sleeps, he hears an owl's hoot at his window. He lets it in, and it morphs into Patroller, a member of the Eastern Clan, one of four clans of Native Americans who were killed by birds of prey in bizarre rituals during the Exploration of the Americas in the sixteenth century.
Patroller is, as it turns out, a shape-shifting half-owl, half-human, as are all mebers of the Eastern Clan.
Their mission is to restore peace to the Union of the Clans, the Northern (Bald eagles), the Southern (vultures), the Eastern (owls), and the Western (Peregrine falcons). The Union spans the entire North American continent.
A battle over territory has erupted between the Eastern and Western Clans, and the East is in desperate need of new members. Jared has been recruited for his passion and respect for animals.
However, the Western Clan threatens to ecologically crowd out mankind from the continent by reproducing and recruiting new members in massive numbers.
Jared accepts membership, but this means he must throw away his new life, and start yet again, as a half-human, half-owl, and must be ready to defend the continent and return the Union to its original state.
Jared meets several new people, and joins the fight for the continent.
There will be much more to the story, and if the reception by friends and family is good enough, then I will write a sequel, to be called Swift Eagle.
Opinions? Comments? Criticism? They're all welcome.
THANK YOU!!
There is much more to the story, i just didn't want to reveal too many details!
And Jared decides to defend the continent because he realizes that he has the chance to save humanity.
There are several other characters vital to the storyline. Again, I didn't want to reveal too many details.
One major theme is values and appreciating the important things in life like family, and choosing between staying in your current life or leaving it to defend a greater good, like the safety of all humanity.