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Another Way to Hope
Paperback
FantasyGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Echomere Press
Published: Nov 20 2026
Pages: 398
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.99 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A fantasy adventure told by its hungriest critic.
In dark times, you hope for shiny heroes. Silent in the deep for centuries, we have drowned in your stories, your great man theories of history and your dark lord theories of evil. We extend a tentacle to bring you another way. A true-enough translation from another world, it begins in the form you crave: a party of heroes on an adventure. Or perhaps what you crave is to mock it, as we did, at first.
Anyone could have a grimling: a monster born to human parents. Mercy and magic are blamed for a crisis that may end humanity.
Already twice a refugee, Leana has found a new home in a city that's really trying-free libraries, an elected council, and perfect cheese bread-and friends she'd do anything for, except the one thing they want her to do: live in fear.
All her life, she's heard the old stories about people like her. Every atrocity is another reason wizards were hunted down, and perhaps deserved to be. But she pieces together another story that was lost, or erased. A discipline of curiosity that once held the monsters back. Maybe it could again, if people would trust it. And if humanity could be trusted with it.
Clue by clue and siege by siege, she and her friends grow strong enough to matter. And to be noticed.
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