A lot is happening behind the scenes in the Rage Universe, and many stories are still left to be told.
Séréna is one of those stories.
Mark Longfellow has been tasked by the Temple of Pearls to bring a casket containing mysterious relics to a faraway castle in the Gonthor Mountains, but these relics are very coveted, and mercenaries have been hired to steal it. So the temple decided to send decoys to the Gonthor too, each of them traveling alone under the name Serena with a pouch supposed to contain the relics, each having been led to believe that one of them might be the Right One, the one who would carry the relics of the Hand of Saint Maximilian to an ancient temple in the Gonthor.
You discovered just how many there are in Chapter 11 of the Serena Series, but you don’t know them yet.
Meet them all, and discover more about the Temple of Pearls and the Serena Universe, in this new book written at a frantic pace by Sister Olivia and beautifully drawn by Sister Viviane, all in one night!
Don’t worry (or do worry, I don’t know), it’s still us. The book is written by me, Eric Peyron, and penciled by Stéphane Degardin, and it’s really by far the strangest and funniest book I’ve ever written. The idea happened as I was writing a scene in Serena Chapter 11 which was supposed to be a penciler’s nightmare: I needed all the main characters gathered in the same room. All the main characters. You won’t understand why it’s so daunting until you know just how many there are. In short, I asked Stéphane to draw a crowd in which no one is unknown.
Well, believe it or not, it’s also a real challenge to write too, especially since I needed everyone to act in character. Which means I had to know everyone before their adventures begin. Meaning I had to first actually write literally the whole first season. And I didn’t manage to fit them all in Season 1, so I had to write Season 2 too, which actually gave me ideas for a Season 3 and a spinoff series… And once that was done, I thought I could get back to writing Chapter 11. Well, that wasn’t enough. I had the stories, but I didn’t quite nailed the characters, so I wrote myself a bible with everyone in it. Then I looked at it, and thought to myself: I have to publish this too. But I didn’t want it to feel impersonal, like some Marvel Universe or DC Who’s Who. Actually, the whole Serena series is about taking characters usually written as generic characters, and making them main characters.
And at some point, Olivia happened. Imagine one my characters taking a step forward, and volunteering to write everything she knows about her temple and her sisters. She would interview them all, and have Viviane draw them, and then all I had to do was let her talk.
And I finally got to finish Chapter 11 which was a relief!
I’d recommend to read the first eleven chapters (either in Worlds of Rage or in Serena #1), and then read The Temple of Pearls.
Read it at least for Olivia, she tried to write it very carefully even though she was in a hurry (and many time, it shows…), she managed to neatly shape her letters, and she managed to write it all in one night!
Even I didn’t manage to do it.
Here are all the publishers of this issue in alphabetical order! Just hover on each icons to display their names, and click to display the corresponding Page!
About Amazon
The Temple of Pearls was previously available in print at Amazon, and digitally on Kindle.
Then one day in January 2026, Amazon decided to terminate my KDP Publisher account.
After having been published on Amazon Createspace, and then Amazon Kindle for mostly fifteen years, my Kindle Publisher Account have been terminated in January 2026, as well as all my books, and I’ve been banned from creating a new account, for activities on my account attempting to manipulate Kindle services, violation of policies relative to on my account, and violation of their Terms and Conditions.
When I asked for explanations, they answered that according to Kindle’s policy, tech support reserves the right to not divulge information they consider as sensible data.
This means that all my books have been censored by Amazon without any detailed explanation. Difficult in this case to appeal to a decision they consider firm and final.
After investigation, I discovered that this kind of brutal account termination isn’t uncommon, and actually happened to many auto-publishers. A few managed to have their account back after many appeals, others didn’t. Some called the services of lawyers who specialize in account suppression (because this kind of specialization actually exists. It seems there’s a market…), and spent an amount I deem too high to have their accounts back (and I’m not even sure this amount is associated to an indefinite period of time because it isn’t written in their websites). As a result, I’m managing these appeals myself, and don’t expect to have my account back anytime soon.
The Temple of Pearls is currently published only digitally, and in print at Festivals and Conventions.
The Temple of Pearls in Public Libraries
YouScribe being the provider of its digital library for many public and private organisms in France, most notably Public Libraries, you will find below a list of those who offer this issue, in alphabetical order.
