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The Gift
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Series: Dark World, Book 2
Publisher Price: $22.99
Publisher: Evalbarber
Published: Feb 23 2026
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Emery travels through the dark dimension guided by dark shadows. She drops into a black hole and plummets into a desolate land that she believes is ancient. She has to rely on her instincts to survive and her unwavering spirit to endure the harsh conditions.
A tribal chief's daughter, Visla, finds her after she ingests poisonous berries and saves her life. Their friendship blossoms as they discover they share similar traits and both mourn the loss of their mothers.
Emery learns of the existence of the bad people whose description matches that of her mother. She sets out on a mission to find them. Visla joins Emery in her quest, but the bad people find them first, imprison Emery, and threaten to change Visla into a superior being against her will.
Emery escapes her prison using her powers and finds herself in a bizarre underground city with advanced technology outpacing the Stone Age. In her quest to find Visla, she befriends two beings whose humanity she questions. They offer help and set out to find Visla. Looming over their quest to find Visla is the fear of change inflicted on those who rebel.
Captured again by the enigmatic bad people, Emery finds unexpected help from someone whose identity further deepens the mystery surrounding her.
In the strange gray city, she stumbles on an artifact that shatters her understanding of the world around her and deepens the mystery further, implicating her mother in humanity's most atrocious acts performed in the name of progress and survival. To find the answers, she forgoes the safety of the world on the surface and dives back into the underground, discovering more secrets and meeting the Masters-the superior beings with unmatched cruelty and depravity.
She barely escapes with her life, with even more questions, but with a budding understanding of what she has to do to get the answers and continue with her mission. If she's going to save humanity, she'll have to make choices that weigh losing what is most precious to her against the world's survival.
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