The following review is by Brandon Kasteler, a Mississippi Educator who works with the Habitat for Humanity project.

Lost Children, by Hank Richards is a riveting blend of romance, adventure, and emotion. A book for all ages and interests, this epoch novel creates a masterful mix of character development and moral insight, with daring action and suspense at every turn. It's a rare treat to have a book that's so exciting it's difficult to put down, and yet leaves the reader with deep insights into life and humanity. This is such a book. It flows easily like a river, guiding the reader effortlessly through thrilling rapids and calm, beautiful drifts as well.

With an amazing level of artistic prowess, Richards gives a human element to a culture and people seemingly far removed from our everyday experience. Magically, Richards is able to launch his readers into this fascinating world of swords and conquest, warriors and kingdoms, queens and horselords. It's an amazing thing to gaze into the lives of a people who lived 4,000 years ago and see portions of oneself and lessons for modern day life, but that's the kind of magic Richards creates with this triumphant novel. Like Shakespeare, Richards has a way of bringing out the human element in a context and situation otherwise beyond our imagination. Richards gives us that imagination. He allows us to see into the hearts and minds of a people we would have otherwise never known. He puts us into their element; he brings them to ours.

A perfect mix of action and emotion, suspense and romance, adventure and coincidence, tragedy and irony, this book will leave it's readers wanting more. Never before has the world been given such a beautifully balanced blend of highs and lows, triumphs and tragedies, good and evil, tears and laughter. Equally satisfying for action lovers and those who appreciate matters of the heart, this is a book that leaves nothing out: a nail-biter, a deep-thinker, a heart-warmer all in one. You'll have to read it to believe it!