… Inga Henriksen must make a journey. She must return to 1986, the summer she turned fourteen. She knows if you want to change the future, you must first rescue the past. She knows a great wrong which must be made right …
When Inga and Pete lose their parents to a tragic accident, they go to live on their grandparents’ hog farm in Sanpete County, Utah. There, Inga’s grandmother teaches her an ancient tradition of folk magic which has been in her family for over a thousand years, passed from mother to daughter, generation after generation. It is a magic made of history and family and Pagan Gods, and a prophetic vision of a Viking funeral, a fire upon the waters of Yuba Lake. But the summer of 1986, the summer Inga turns fourteen, her grandmother wanders into a storm that will forever change the lives of everyone in her family.
In the aftermath, Inga struggles to reconcile with what Grandma called “the deep magic.” She is haunted by Grandma’s vision of a Viking funeral, convinced it is her responsibility to bury Grandma in a ship on a lake. As a plague of locusts descends upon the valley to destroy her family farm, Inga and Pete embark on an adventure to right a great wrong. The quest will challenge them every step of the way. They will fail and keep fighting and fail again. A boy will become a warrior. A girl will become a magician. Children will be turned into adults. Sacrifices will be required. Before Inga can become the master of her destiny, she must first become the victim of history. Inga will learn what the Gods have always known. The greatest magic is not spells or rituals or chanted words. The greatest magic is not even love.
Set against the stark high desert of central Utah, featuring an eclectic cast of off-beat characters and a landscape shot through with gods and demons, Locust Eaters is a coming-of-age adventure about tradition, faith, and family, in which the modern world crumbles under the weight of the myths that created it, and Inga must rescue the child she used to be in order to heal the adult she has become.
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8 Years Ago on This Day, Adrian received his Master’s in Create Writing from Oregon State University MFA
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Adrian Stumpp
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A counterfeiter finds himself embroiled in a centuries-old mystery.
Stumpp’s debut novel opens by introducing readers to young counterfeiter Damian Lancaster, an orphan working on the fringes of the San Francisco underworld. When he takes a job providing counterfeit money to a group of South Korean criminals, his greed gets the better of him. He fails to do his due diligence in researching the culprits; they turn on him; kidnap him; and they’re poised to kill him. Then he’s rescued by the least likely person imaginable: A young woman named Nathalie Jevali, who’s been starring in his dreams for his whole life, just as he’s been popping up in hers. They immediately start talking about their dreams, yet when they part ways, life seems to go back to normal for both of them. But very unusual forces are working in the background, including the machinations of a Korean gang lord and an enigmatic alchemist named Albert. The alchemist seems to believe Damian is a living key to a quest extending back centuries and revolving around the famed Lapis philosophorum, the Philosopher’s Stone. But the violence of Damian’s shady milieu seems ready to crush him before he can make sense of any of these elements. The author very intentionally pitches his series opener as a combination of the pseudo-historical skulduggery of The Da Vinci Code and the crime-world grit of an Elmore Leonard novel. Stumpp’s prose is sometimes overwritten, but Damian himself is a compelling, Hollywood-ready hero who carries the bulk of the book’s action with ease. He’s an intelligent young brooder, a skilled and unrepentant master criminal, and a philosopher on the art of counterfeiting (“People would believe in a lie if it showed them what they expected to see and it was Damian’s job to make lies ring true”). Readers will find it consistently intriguing to watch him navigate both the dangers of his own profession and the weird alternate reality described by the alchemist.
An imaginative crime tale with heavy supernatural overtones.
The Northman Subverted my Expectations in a GOOD Way!
Let me start by saying I am a BIG TIME history and mythology nerd who is weirdly obsessed with my genealogy. The bulk of my ancestry is Germanic and Scandinavian from my father’s side and I’ve always felt a huge call to the ancient ones. I became super rapt by the history of the Vikings from the moment I became aware of them. I was pretty obsessed with Norse mythology in junior high and I’ve read most of the literature I could find about them from the Eddas and the Sagas to scholarly pursuits.
My husband is also a descendant and a scholar interested in the deep past. We spent our honeymoon in the Baltic (Denmark, Estonia, Russia, Finland, Sweden) going to the Viking Ship museum in Roskilde and the Viking Museum in Stockholm.
Thus, we have spent a lot of time…
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Master counterfeiter, Damian Lancaster, has one goal: get rich and retire by his thirtieth birthday. But when a routine drop goes wrong, Damian is rescued from gangsters by Nathalie Jevali, the woman who has haunted his nightmares all his life.
And she has dreamed of him as well.
Plunged into a mysterious world of occultists, alchemists, magicians, and scholars, pursued by international criminals, Damian and Nathalie must learn to trust each other if they hope to solve the mystery that unites them. Their only clues are an obscure fifteenth century wedding invitation, their shared recurring dreams and two words: Lapis exillis. A code name for the philosopher’s stone.
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Albert, The Man in the Shadows
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Phaedra – mysterious and elusive. Is she a guide or a manipulator?
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