The Phoenix and the Spider

by Benny Charles, Alex Robinson

Overview

A dark-winged beacon of hope

and a monstrous purveyor of death.

The Phoenix and the Spider have haunted Theo's dreams for as long as she can remember. One evokes a feeling of warm comfort, the other unbridled fear. Yet their presence in her otherwise unremarkable existence remains a mystery.

Hidden in these visions lie the secrets of a past that spans countless lifetimes, each one filled with love, death, and untold power waiting to be reawakened. If Theo doesn't unravel the truth soon though, she will be doomed to the same cruel fate that has followed her for millennia.

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The Phoenix and the Spider is the first book of the Children of the Aether series. Told through multiple character perspectives, this slow-burn dark fantasy combines a modern-day narrative with immersive historical flashbacks spanning from ancient Mesopotamia to pre-WWI Siberia.

* Content warning: This novel is recommended for a 16+ audience as it contains adult themes including violence, murder, torture, sexual assault, suicidal ideation, self-harm, and mental illness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780645446418
Publisher:	Penned Up Emotion Publishing
Publication date:	06/01/2022
Series:	Children of the Aether , #1
Pages:	606
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.35(d)

About the Author

When he's not transferring his boundless story ideas from brain to keyboard, Benny is a bar manager and Alex's loyal travel companion. He loves film, music, literature, video games, and basically any other outlet for turning pain into productivity. If broken down into his base elements, he would be composed of 65% imagination, 25% heavy music, 7% disappointment at the failings of mankind, 2% common sense, and 1% pure stubbornness.

If gallivanting around the world, eating to excess without consequence, and booping dogs was a career path, Alex would have picked that. In the absence of such a choice, she can usually be found polishing Benny's rough drafts, plying her trade as a pastry chef, or taking a year off here and there to answer the call of her wanderlust. If broken down into her base elements, she would be composed of 50% song lyrics, movie quotes, and dessert recipes, 25% sarcasm and disdain, 14% unwilling compromise, 10% spite, and 1% insistence that Oxford commas are necessary.