The shadow of the great usurper, King Fogosombre, has kept the East in darkness for twelve long years. Made paranoid by a foretelling of his downfall, the king’s indiscriminate violence reaches a new zenith, leaving twins Arsenio and Maricota orphaned and homeless, their village burnt to the ground.
Now, as the dying embers of their rebellion fade into the night, the twins make a promise to find aide for their people in foreign lands. To get out from under the king’s reach, they must venture across the Great Ocean into a world they had only dreamt about through travelers’ stories. From their perilous quest arises a tale of emperors and queens, marauders and mysticism, fortitude and forbidden love.
Meanwhile, King Fogosombre conducts profane rituals driven by his lust for indomitability. Toiling with malign magic that may yield dire consequences for all the known world, he seeks a pact with the shadows, a plan to cement his reign indefinitely: a design of darkness.
Brielle Panya has been hired to rid the infamous Garrick Estate of its ghostly residents. But what begins as a routine job turns life-threatening when she starts to uncover a trail of lies surrounding the estate’s most mysterious spirit: the bloody, screaming woman who appears every night at half-past nine.
Never one to quit, Brielle digs her heels in even as the hauntings grow more violent and terrifying. But if she can’t find a way to set all the spirits free, this may be the last job of her life.
Ollie died five years ago, but his lingering ghost makes moving on difficult.
Haunted by his late husband’s spirit, Brooklyn has become increasingly disturbed and teeters on the brink of suicide. But as a last attempt at revitalization, he decides to drive their beloved Ford Ranger to the place where they met, hoping that retracing their life together will somehow free him from Ollie’s ghost.
Along the road, Brooklyn meets the free-spirited Zinnia, feisty Dahlia, and a dreamer named Aven who remind him about what it means to keep living and challenge his views on what awaits him at the end of his drive.
A Vast, Untethered Ocean is a contemporary and poignant novel that explores the complexities of human relationships and how we deal with devastating loss.
“I’m sure the sky is littered with stories, but they’ve all eluded me.”
Vegetable growing competitions. A crashed UFO. Unthawed poultry. And a ladder of stars.
Inside these pages, you will encounter a universe of differing characters. Some are fantastical and some entirely ordinary—though not a single one is the same as another. Every person in this universe is living a different life, and each of their lives is composed of countless stories.
Balancing humor and heart, this enchanting collection of fiction juxtaposes extraordinary circumstances with slice-of-life narratives as each attempts to interpret universal experiences. A Sky Littered with Stories finds the wonder in every human connection.
