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Fantasy Action & Adventure New Zealand English

Book One of the Hardwater Embodiment First published 2023 ISBN 978-0-473-76405-0 Paperback 400 pages 140mm x 216mm

Past and present. Light and dark. Bones and flesh.

As the city of Hardwater struggles with ambitious new powers, an unlikely hero grapples with contrasts on a desperate mission to secure a child’s future.

Henry commits a reluctant robbery so that he might gather provisions for his wilderness existence. A tense encounter brings forth an echo of his violent past. He is forced to reveal his circumstances, and the young girl in his care.

A vexing assignment and a perilous journey hurls Henry back into the orbit of Lydia, his upwardly-mobile old flame. The shameful events of their mutual history were more interwoven than he knows, and erupt into urgency as dark forces ravage the city that he once called home.