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<p>Her beautiful, brilliant mind might destroy the world... or save it.</p> <p>Farisa's Crossing, already complete, will be published in 59 chapters between April 26 and August 3, 2024.</p> <p>The Girl</p> <p>A forest fire has destroyed Farisa's home, reputation, and even her memory, with all signs suggesting the young witch as the cause of the deadly blaze. Overnight, she becomes a fugitive from the false justice of the fascistic Global Company run by the world's only trillionaire, Hampus Bell. The mild-mannered teacher of an ancient language, the loyal friend and animal lover who had been the forest's ranger for so long, must survive on her wits in a world that has become hostile to her existence.</p> <p>The World</p> <p>Gas lamps, telegraphs, and machine guns have remade human life and society in their own image. Steam-powered trains achieve the unprecedented speed of 30 miles per hour. Orcs, elves, and dragons have been pushed to the margins. Magic is more of a memory, a curiosity, than a force or source of power. Still, even in this age of invention and discovery, the world's Southern Hemisphere remains inaccessible due to intolerable heat, ferocious wildlife, and—it is rumored—ancient curses. Rumors tell of a high-altitude path—the notorious Mountain Road—that once connected the two worlds, but thousands of years' worth of efforts to reach the other side have brought nothing but failure and death. This does not prevent hundreds every year from attempting the journey and, sometimes, the other travelers are more dangerous than the travel itself...</p> <p>The Clash</p> <p>Farisa, whose mother was murdered by the Global Company in her infancy, has long believed her father to be dead as well, but when she learns he may be alive and on the Mountain Road, she joins a team of outcasts—rebels, gamblers, spies—to follow it and see where it leads. Although skeptical at first, she grows to believe that, by use of her increasing magical talent, she might finally establish contact between the Known World and the Antipodes. She will run at midnight through cities sharpened by ethnic tensions, cryptic graffiti, and frequent gunfights. She will use sorcery, science, and her own quick wit to defuse traps lain centuries ago. She will find love and lose it, more than once; she will fight for her life, more than once; she will face betrayal, more than once. As she and her companions go south, they'll encounter blistering deserts, ominous jungles, and cursed ruins of civilizations so long gone as to be nameless. What scares her the most, though, as her memories return and she discovers her true nature, is the inevitable confrontation with her own self—what she has done, who she has been and might become, and what really happened on the night of the fire.</p>
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