The Mahogany Door, the first book in a series of fantasy-adventure books for young readers, begins on a beach where an old man, sitting on a little wooden crate, tells a decades’ old tale to a dedicated band of listeners no more than twelve years old.
The old man’s narrative begins with a troubled young man named Michael Peterson having a reoccurring nightmare. His nightmare is about an old spirit guide named Billy who is beckoning him to reunite with his childhood friends and return to their hometown to complete the adventure they started many years ago. And in doing so,they will make right the wrongdoings from their past lives. Unable to shake the visions, Michael writes a letter to a childhood friend named Kali Logan, explaining that he must find their mutual friend, JT Davis, so they can all return to Warhead Dale, a large, old chalet once owned by JT’s grandfather that sits on the coast of the small, cobblestone covered town of Athens Eden.
Michael finds JT only to discover that time and life experience has changed him. Not only has JT lost both of his parents, but he has also lost his memory, including those important memories of his childhood that the trio will need if they are going to retrace their steps through the Mahogany Door into the fantasy Vryheid world of Bruinduer.
Convinced the only way he will be able to find answers to his lost childhood memories, JT goes with Michael to reunite with Kali in Athens Eden, where they arrive at the neglected Warhead Dale. There they confront the spirit guide, Billy, in all of his unrecognizable glory.
The trio learns that Bruinduer is going to collapse due to their carelessness in not following the rules of the Vryheid world. They also find out that because of their recklessness, a long lost friend, Charlie Blackburn, who entered through the Mahogany Door with them on their incomplete journey, is still alive and has somehow taken control of Bruinduer away from Billy.
After following Michael through the Mahogany Door to complete the task from years passed, JT and Kali learn they have been betrayed by their conniving friend, and that he has teamed with Charlie in splitting Bruinduer into the two kingdoms of Godwin and Triton.
Things aren't quite as they seem in Bruinduer, and The Mahogany Door unfolds in a fantasy tale of tragedy, adventure, destiny, and hope.
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