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Back Cover Blurb
Bethany Sweet is dead. So no wonder she’s surprised to wake up again.
Only this isn’t Earth and the beautiful body she’s wearing isn’t hers.
And it’s been kidnapped.
It doesn’t take her long to discover that she’s wanted for a brutal and bloody sacrifice - one which will stop a monster from destroying the world.
Beth can save thousands of lives, prevent mass destruction, but to do it she has to die. And she’s done that once already.
She’s not in a hurry to do it again.
Synopsis
(Bear in mind this is intended as a summary, and is not an example of the writing)
BETH is dead. But she wakes up again on another world, SPLYNE, wearing an artificial body made from flowers. She’s rescued from kidnappers by JAREN, a Maigard soldier, and his men. She soon realises her rescuers have created her new body and summoned her to Splyne only to sacrifice her to prevent a monstrous creature, the BLIGHT, from devastating the world.
Fleeing, she joins forces with a tortured assassin, HAASCH, and a revolutionary, KOSKA. She learns the CAUL, who summoned her, have corrupted the FLOWER MAIDEN’s true purpose so they can retain power on this world. Pursued by the Caul, Beth, Haasch and Koska travel north, to the ancient city of LAGULA, where the Flower Maiden was originally designed to heal an inter-dimensional tear created by a long ago accident.
Jaren captures them before they arrive at Lagula, but Haasch manages to overpower him and takes him prisoner. They travel onwards to the city, only to discover the tear in the planet has grown too large for the Flower Maiden to heal. They are then confronted by the Blight, a creature born of KAZERITE technology, the same technology which produces theotics - Splyne’s chief source of power. The Blight mediates through Haasch, who it recruited thirty years earlier, and tells Beth the Kazerite is coming from the rift as living crystals which feed on Splyne’s life-force, slowly killing it. The Blight announces that it will destroy the rift, but it requires a sacrifice. When Haasch is chosen, Beth pleads for his life, offering herself instead. Jaren, who has been crippled on the way to the shrine, volunteers instead.
They make their escape while Jaren remains behind, his purpose to sacrifice both himself and the Blight in order to save the planet. Narrowly surviving the ensuing explosion, Beth, Haasch and Koska realise that the Kazerite crystals are now dying, leaving the planet without any source of power. The Caul’s reign is over. Theotics have vanished. A new dawn has arrived.
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