The Fragile Keepers
Natalie Pinter
Fiction
When a pair of siblings discover a mythical creature, she grants them both sublime gifts and horrific curses. Following a lightning storm, Andre and her brother Ben discover a winged girl...
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When a pair of siblings discover a mythical creature, she grants them both sublime gifts and horrific curses.
Following a lightning storm, Andre and her brother Ben discover a winged girl cowering in their backyard shed. The millennials are thrilled by the appearance of a mythical being, but they are wary too, particularly when she warns them that a dangerous monster has followed her from “Elsewhere.”
The girl, (Shae) is desperate to return to a world she can now only scarcely recall. Exquisite and beguiling, Shae evokes a protectiveness on their part—especially when she grants them gifts of extraordinary new talent. Andre and Ben want to help her however they can.
But the siblings soon find out that these gifts carry ghastly side effects. Andre is enchanted by prophetic dreams, but they wither her grip on reality; Ben creates sublime music, but his health deteriorates. And then, to their horror, they discover that Shae must complete a terrible task before she can return home and that everyone they know and love is in danger. Andre and Ben must now figure out how to thwart a being they’ve grown to care for.
What they don’t realize is that Shae is changing—she’s beginning to develop a conscience, and an affinity for her human hosts. And as her time runs out, she must make a terrible choice before all their lives spiral into a grisly climax of cruel irony and heartbreaking sacrifice.
The Fragile Keepers is a 2020 SUNNY Award Winner!
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING:
"Natalie Pinter is a wonderful storyteller. She does more than just write--she casts a cozy, tactile, and entrancing spell, which you become compelled to follow wherever it takes you." -- Eric Shapiro, author of It's Only Temporary & Days of Allison
"The Fragile Keepers...rewards the reader with a journey into the marvelous and the magical. The fantasy that Pinter draws offers a commentary and perspective on the ordinary world we all now inhabit, a world infected with diseases of all kinds: ecological, cultural, spiritual." -- Arthur Hoyle, author of Mavericks, Mystics, and Misfits
Product Details:
Page Count: 262
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Publish Date: October 19, 2020
Imprint: Hellbender Books
Genre: Fiction
FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary
FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
FICTION / Thrillers / Supernatural
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