The Reliquarian Book I - A Child Unsung: Part I - The Key to Everything by Jessica Clark

In a world that blurs the line of symbolism and reality, where the worlds are not only flat but turn as an interdependent collection of gears, all powered by a mysterious numen key. When a child finds her way into a forgotten garden and discovers the remnants of this statue she finds the chest open and gears and pieces removed. A quest far too great for one so small, she must journey the realms in search of the missing pieces, and quite literally mend the Girl With the Broken Heart. If not, the realms will cease to turn and all that exists will perish. Where the lines between Magic, Science, and Spirituality have all overlapped, a war between god-like sisters, ancient orders, and rivaling civilizations is raging. She'll learn of legends, life lessons, and love in all its forms. She'll dance with tree spirits in the Forest of Essence, read magic books in the great halls of the Library of Eloquence, find lost things in the Atheneum, experience poise, properness, and imprisonment in the great city's Menagerie. She'll drink with gypsies, and sail with pirates; she'll lose loved ones, her way, and her faith. as she makes impossible choices and an impossible climb to keep her promise. A tryst between mythology, self-reflection, poetry, braided into a full-length novel, and elegantly dressed as a photographically illustrated storybook; the first book of The Reliquarian is unlike anything you've encountered from the gorgeous chaotic mind of Author and Artist Jessica Lark.

Adult • Fantasy • Fantasy/Contemporary