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Bassam and the Seven Secret Scrolls

The ancient Chronicles tell of a powerful sheik in Arabia who carved the first caves in the mysterious canyon city called Rekeem. Before dying, he hid there among the caves his secrets to wealth, to power, and to prosperity, written upon seven scrolls.

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For three centuries, a long time for gossip to create giants, men came looking for the secrets and found nothing but rumors—tall promises that the scrolls had escaped the caves and were sent forth to serve those who held them, granting them untold powers and riches.

Thus, every camel caravan and trader passing between the high deserts was always suspect for their good fortunes. Others watching with greed from afar wondered aloud in hushed voices, "Do they bear the burden of the scrolls?"

After a thousand years, the last lone holder of the scrolls, an elderly chief of the Abdali-ud-din, a wise and traveled leader named Zafir, had to pass the secrets down to an heir. Having no son, he extended to 17-year-old Bassam the invitation to leave his home, his friends, and his beloved Rasha, to accompany the old man on a two year trek across the continent to prove himself worthy, and to finally unlock the timeless mystery hidden within the Seven Secret Scrolls.

And then, what came suddenly changed everything ....

Audience
adult
Length
long · 482 pages

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