Legends of Garaaga — Paul E. Cooley

Before the written word, a lone warrior hunts an ancient evil. Thousands of years later, a young man travels from the forests of the Indus Valley to the mighty kingdom of Akkad to keep a legend alive. Alexander the Great's scouts fight for their lives when they discover a creature as deadly as it is beautiful. And at the Library of Alexandria, a scribe discovers the truth--the god Garaaga and its children are real.

Legends of Garaaga chronicles the origin of a legend and its passage from the stone age to the peak of the Roman Empire. Legends is a dark, brooding collection of stories that pits humanity against a dark god's progeny.