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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Fantasy
In the tradition of Neil Gaiman (The Ocean at the End of the Lane),
Scott Smith (The Ruins), and Jason Mott (The Returned),
award-winning playwright Robert Levy spins a dark tale of
alienation and belonging, the familiar and the surreal, family
secrets and the search for truth in his debut supernatural
thriller.AS A BOY, HE VANISHED INTO THE WOODS. SOMETHING ELSE CAME
BACK. It's a long way from the grit of New York City to the stark
beauty of Nova Scotia, and many years separate Blue Whitley's only
two journeys between them. One occurred at age five, when his
mother stole him away from the hinterlands of Canada. Now,
twenty-five years later, he's returning to sell a house left to him
by a grandmother he barely remembers. Envisioning the trip as a
week of countryside leisure, Blue is accompanied by his best friend
Elisa, her stalwart husband Jeremy, and Gabe, his young and
admiring co-worker. Starling Cove, however, is not your typical
vacation spot. Blue senses secrets withheld. Strange whispers on
the wind welcome him home, and at first he finds himself staring
transfixed into the woods. Then he feels them gazing back. After a
shocking discovery--that Blue went missing in these forests for
weeks as a child--life as he knows it begins to fall apart. And
when another abduction strikes, the truth about Starling Cove
begins to emerge. Told from all four characters' points of view,
through lush, evocative prose Robert Levy conjures a fascinating,
sinister landscape. A unique blend of taut psychological thriller
and supernatural suspense, The Glittering World is a stunning debut
novel about belonging and betrayal, the mysteries of the natural
world and the secrets buried deep within the human heart.
The war is over, the dark forces have won, and the hero who was
supposed to save them is dead.
Captured as her castle is overrun by the enemy, the world as Briony
Rosewood knows it is changed forever. Evil has won, and her people face
imminent servitude, imprisonment, or death.
Stripped of her Magic and her freedom, Briony and the other survivors
are quickly sold off to the highest bidders in an auction—and as
Evermore's princess, she fetches the highest price. After a fierce
bidding war, she’s sold to none other than Toven Hearst, scion of a
family known for their cruelty.
Yet despite the horrors of her new world and the role she must learn to
play within it, all is not lost. Help—and hope—may yet arise in the
most unlikely of places…
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