Chaos: The Oracle is the fourth book in The Delegate series, a collection of independent novels written in first-person narrative by Cyndie Shaffstall, best selling author of Willows: The Creole.
Zeus's Oracle
At the feet of Pythia, the greatest oracle in all of Greece, Zeus places an infant destined to become his Oracle and deliver his prophecies. This is the story of Chaos--from which all else came. A story of Titans and Olympians, and the many times they acted against their creations: man, woman, and beast. Is their meddling that of supreme creators--or someone, something, else--as the scholars of Akademia would have the Oracle believe?
Alexander's Request
In 334 BCE, Alexander the Great calls upon Hephaestion, his trusted childhood friend, to escort the young Oracle to Pella so she can issue Zeus's prophecies about the invasion of Persia.
Crossing Greece and then Asia, the Oracle hears theories from philosophers and scholars who suggest the gods--her gods--were mere mortals made more fantastic with each generation's telling of their deeds.
The voice of Zeus dims with the impious assertions, and she struggles to continue to hear his prophecies as requested by the Macedonian king. The teachings of her mentor and friend, Pythia, are challenged and maintaining her faith becomes more difficult in the devastating wake of Alexander's conquests.
The Wonders of Ancient Greece
A complex tapestry woven of overlapping stories from Greek mythology, Greek history, and the conquests of Alexander the Great; Chaos richly illustrates and breathes life into the ancient world.
Each book of The Delegate series reads as though you've come across someone's journal. While you read, the saga envelopes you, and it becomes your journal, and your story, as you are transported through time.
About the Author: Cyndie Shaffstall wrote her first novel in 2015, but it has simply been the latest twist in a rollercoaster ride of a career. Six months after the first, Cyndie finished the fourth entry in The Delegate series, which includes Seed Money: The Entrepreneur, Glyphs: The Scribe, Willows: The Creole, and Chaos: The Oracle. Book five, Neune: The Delegate, is due out later this year, and she is planning to match the success of Willows, which became an Amazon #1 Best Seller in two genres just three weeks after publication. In 1992, Cyndie started her professional writing career with QuarkXPress: Making the Most of Your Negative Experiences, followed by a dozen after-market computer manuals, but even that didn't keep her busy. She bought X-Ray Magazine and assumed the roles of editor, publisher, and contributing author-and still left with ink in her pen, in 2009, she revealed online marketing best practices in Small-business Guide to Winning at Web Marketing. As though fiction and periodicals aren't enough, Shaffstall is also a prolific author of marketing content in the form of eBooks, case studies, press releases, blog articles, and other online content for clients and for her current company, Spider Trainers, and has written numerous articles for online magazines such as Target Marketing Magazine, Book Business Insights, and others. Cyndie has enjoyed a successful career at the helm of more than a dozen companies, including Sassy Strappings for which she also holds the patent. Entrepreneur, inventor, public speaker, and author, she has presented to audiences across the globe on the topics of software, publishing, writing, and automated marketing for American Marketing Association, Act-On Software, Target Marketing Magazine, Data.com, Salesforce, WooCommerce, and many others. She's probably coming to a city near you-if it's a vacation spot, you can count on it.
