BOOK ONE
Carson Halloway hates his life. Being a teenager stuck in a back-water town is hard. Sharing a room with his two brothers in an orphanage is harder. But hardest of all? Dealing with death. And having to save the world.
ISBN: 0-9785946-8-1
AUTHOR
John Garvin is the writer and director of Liithos's "Trace War," Sony Playstation's award winning "Days Gone," "Uncharted: Golden Abyss," "Resistance: Retribution," and the Syphon Filter series. He has also written several books on Carl Barks, the famous creator of Uncle Scrooge. John's writing has been nominated for dozens of awards, including the WGA best screenplay for "Uncharted: Golden Abyss." This is his first novel.
High up in the Utah mountains, the Amber Ghost strides silently through a grove of Quaking Aspens. Called Pando by the living, at over 80,000 years, it is the oldest living organism in Jīvan Jagat—the Living World. She stops and listens. A morning breeze rustles through the branches overhead. The trees are ancient and sing to themselves. This is Prāṇi Vanam—a living place. The veil is thin here. The world shifts.
She stands within Wíiyuška Wóšiyape Wíčha. Here the grove is sculpted crystal and she is surrounded by a thousand spinning lights. Three great figures of glass tower over her. Here, in the Crystal World, their voices are clearer. They sing to the infinite. After a long while, they stop and whisper to her. She closes her eyes and nods. She is Sa-ankh Sekhet. Where they send her, she will go.
The Crystal Ghost Chronicles
Carson Halloway