Featured Indie Book on Indie Author News: Fantasy Novel On the Verge by Garen Glazier.
On the Verge is a fast-paced adventure with a colorful cast of characters set against the atmospheric backdrop of a Pacific Northwest autumn. Dark fantasy incorporating elements of art history, myths, and fairy tales.
The Book has been self-published via Only Child Press and is available as eBook - 224 pages - released in September 2015.
About the Book
Art, demons, and death. Seattle is On the Verge.
Freya is just a university student worried about grades and tuition until a gorgeous succubus interrupts her post-exam latte with a proposition: come work for her boss, Seattle’s reclusive heiress and antiquities collector Imogen Beldame. Eagerly agreeing despite a nagging feeling in the pit of her stomach, Freya finds herself swept up in a deadly quest at the behest of her psychopathic new employer. Beldame has given her until Halloween to collect three magical pigments that hold the key to crafting mesmerizing portraits that can access the Verge, a borderland on the edge of human reality, and the powerful beings that call it home.
Freya’s reluctant journey takes her to a goblin stronghold in the Cascades for the color blue, to the Seattle Underground to request the color red from Baba Yaga, and to the Fremont home of a beautifully gruesome Cambodian ahp, or spirit of the night, for the color yellow. Working together with Rusty, an enigmatically disfigured man intimately connected with the Verge, and a motley crew of mercurial demons, Freya must come up with a plan to stop Beldame and preserve the fragile balance between fantasy and reality that is at its most vulnerable on Halloween.
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Reviews (Excerpts)
- "I would highly recommend this book for any fantasy lovers. It was such a well-written novel with such an eclectic mix of characters and such a unique storyline. I loved that it took place in Seattle, in areas I would now love to visit. I was guessing to the end and was thoroughly pleased with the ending. [...]" - Kimberly Coleman
- "This book hooked me in from the beginning and kept me interested until the last page - my favorite kind of read! Very interesting and thoughtful - I'm always impressed at an author's ability to tell a fantasy story and it seem a like a possible reality. Loved this book!" - Christine M. (Amazon)
- "I thoroughly enjoyed reading this novel - the characters, the mystery, the art history and mythical aspects, and especially the darkness. I did not know which character to trust, and I did not fully understand the spiritual powers of the Verge until the final pages, giving the novel an element of suspense and mystery. [...]" - Carrie (Amazon)
- "This story and it's cast of characters will stay with you for a very long time. Frightening at times, dark and always entertaining. [...]" - Lori A.(Amazon)
About the Author
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| Author Garen Glazier |
Garen Glazier is a lifelong resident of Seattle. She married her Russia-born-America-raised high school sweetheart, and they have a four year old and a new little one born in February.
She has a master's degree in art history from the University of Washington and is a freelance writer and author.
This is her debut novel. Learn more about her and read her blog, Scriven by Garen, at garenglazier.com.
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