New Releases by Kent Stetson

The World Above the Sky transports seventeen-year-old Eugainia St Clare Delacroix—the Living Holy Grail—from certain death at the hands of her enemies to the safety of the New World. The year is 1398. Fleet commander Prince Henry Sinclair, Eugainia’s protector and champion, clings to the dying Templar dream of establishing a New Arcadia with Eugainia enthroned at its beating heart. The Royal and Holy Blood flows in Eugainia’s veins: her lineage stretches back beyond the Christ and Mary Magdalene, past the Kings David and Solomon, past the man-god Pharaohs of Egypt to the dawn of time itself. Eugainia disembarks weakened and near death on the Atlantic coast of Canada. There stands the handsome, young and recently widowed Mimktawo’qu’sk, chief-in-waiting of a peaceful clan of east coast Mi’kmaqs. In Mimktawo’qu’sk’s veins runs the Ancient and Honourable blood of The People, blood as potent with magic as the living bones of the earth, blood rich in the mysteries of the star world—the world above the sky. In the time of the Two made One, Mimktawo’qu’sk and revitalized Eugainia break their chains, redefine divinity and, together, forge a new and shining world.

"Those who are angry, hateful, vengeful, and hopeless lose the courage or strength to survive. What they think will protect and save them becomes the means to their death. But those who accept the impossible and develop a particular urge to defy it; those who have a cultivated personal vision, an inclusive moral system, an understanding of contradiction, an ability to love, and a compassion for humanity; those are [the] survivors."--BOOK JACKET.