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The Gluemaker's Demise
Paperback
FantasyGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.99
ISBN13: 9781068431081
Publisher: Simon Robinson
Published: Jan 14 2026
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Gluemaker's Demise is a haunting prelude of memory, loss, and quiet becoming, set in the same richly imagined world as The Shaman's Blessing. In this lyrical and introspective novel, Patricia Barnett draws readers into the fragile beginnings of a society shaped as much by grief and longing as by hope.
Long before the arrival of the Shaman, the seeds of destiny are already taking root. Within a remote tribal settlement bound by tradition and unspoken rules, lives unfold beneath the slow weight of expectation. Bonds are formed and broken, ambitions simmer beneath the surface, and the choices of a few begin to ripple outward in ways no one can yet foresee.
At the heart of the story lies a quiet reckoning - the gradual unravelling of certainties once thought permanent. As personal loyalties are tested and the past presses insistently upon the present, the community must confront the cost of its beliefs and the sacrifices demanded by survival.
Told with restraint, empathy, and a deep sensitivity to inner lives, The Gluemaker's Demise explores themes of belonging, inheritance, and the slow turning of fate. It is a story of origins rather than endings - a subtle, resonant meditation on how worlds are shaped not by grand gestures, but by the unnoticed moments that quietly change everything.
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