Verdure

Out there in Windridge Ravine – his ravine – an evil influence is at work. A cosmic wound that Edward feels pulsing through the night, growing ever stronger, more menacing . . .. . .Returning from college for his father’s funeral, Edward Marshwillow faces challenges and adversities from many directions. Julie, the love of his life, has left him for his best friend Tim. Edward’s girlfriend from college, Adrienne, will visit him soon. Her presence will only drive home Julie’s permanent estrangement from him. Meanwhile Gala, Edward’s beautiful and vulnerable teenage sister, has been caught up in a web of occult events that are besieging the town of Windridge . . .Since childhood, Edward has felt a metaphysical affinity with Windridge Ravine, and now even that is jeopardized by the throbbing cosmic wound.In the background, a shadowy figure exercises his growing psychic powers, stealing the life force of his teenage victims and moving ever closer to the Great Advance that will grant him unlimited control over the human race. Can he achieve immortality before the enigmatic Swedish Girl overtakes him? An expansive, ambitious debut, Verdure is an adventure of the mind that culminates in a phantasmagorical battle to the death.

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