Far From Raven's Cliff
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ISBN10: 1038389178
ISBN13: 9781038389176
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: Oct 5 2026
Pages: 468
Weight: 2.23
Height: 1.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781038389176
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: Oct 5 2026
Pages: 468
Weight: 2.23
Height: 1.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Born into the shadow of Raven's Cliff, Gerry Edwards learned early that childhood could be shaped by silence, fear, and the hard lessons of survival. In a farmhouse marked by alcoholism, madness, violence, and grief, Gerry found refuge in imagination - in ravines that became kingdoms, ravens that became watchers, and dragons that were both inheritance and warning.
After tragedy tears his family apart, Gerry carries the wounds of his past into a restless life of reinvention. From Ontario to Toronto, Alaska, Vancouver, San Francisco, and back again, he searches for meaning in art, work, love, danger, mysticism, and the strange power of the unseen. Along the way he becomes a scholar, fighter, seeker, builder, husband, and father - always pursued by the question of whether a person can transform what they have inherited, or whether the old fire will consume them.
At the centre of his journey is Linora: fierce, wounded, magnetic, and impossible to tame. Together they build a life touched by love, ambition, spiritual hunger, and forces neither of them fully understands. As Gerry follows the dragon through family history, grief, faith, desire, and fate, he must discover whether the fire passed down through generations is a curse - or the very thing that might light the way home.
A sweeping biographical novel of trauma, resilience, love, and legacy, this is the story of one man's lifelong search to turn pain into meaning, inheritance into choice, and darkness into something powerful enough to survive.
After tragedy tears his family apart, Gerry carries the wounds of his past into a restless life of reinvention. From Ontario to Toronto, Alaska, Vancouver, San Francisco, and back again, he searches for meaning in art, work, love, danger, mysticism, and the strange power of the unseen. Along the way he becomes a scholar, fighter, seeker, builder, husband, and father - always pursued by the question of whether a person can transform what they have inherited, or whether the old fire will consume them.
At the centre of his journey is Linora: fierce, wounded, magnetic, and impossible to tame. Together they build a life touched by love, ambition, spiritual hunger, and forces neither of them fully understands. As Gerry follows the dragon through family history, grief, faith, desire, and fate, he must discover whether the fire passed down through generations is a curse - or the very thing that might light the way home.
A sweeping biographical novel of trauma, resilience, love, and legacy, this is the story of one man's lifelong search to turn pain into meaning, inheritance into choice, and darkness into something powerful enough to survive.
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