She alone can save the world and become Death's bride.
COBWEB BRIDE (Cobweb Bride Trilogy, Book One) is a history-flavored fantasy novel with romantic elements of the Persephone myth, about Death's ultimatum to the world.
What if you killed someone and then fell in love with them?
In an alternate Renaissance world, somewhere in an imaginary "pocket" of Europe called the Kingdom of Lethe, Death comes, in the form of a grim Spaniard, to claim his Bride. Until she is found, in a single time-stopping moment all dying stops. There is no relief for the mortally wounded and the terminally ill....
Covered in white cobwebs of a thousand snow spiders she lies in the darkness... Her skin is cold as snow... Her eyes frozen... Her gaze, fiercely alive...
While kings and emperors send expeditions to search for a suitable Bride for Death, armies of the undead wage an endless war... A black knight roams the forest at the command of his undead father… Spies and political treacheries abound at the imperial Silver Court.... Murdered lovers find themselves locked in the realm of the living...
Look closer — through the cobweb filaments of her hair and along each strand shine stars...
And one small village girl, Percy—an unwanted, ungainly middle daughter—is faced with the responsibility of granting her dying grandmother the desperate release she needs.
As a result, Percy joins the crowds of other young women of the land in a desperate quest to Death's own mysterious holding in the deepest forests of the North…
And everyone is trying to stop her.
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Cobweb Bride could not have been completed and published without the amazing and generous support of numerous individualsfriends, colleagues, readers, fans, and strangers who are now friends!
They are:
Alan Levi
Alexander the Drake
Alfred D. Byrd
Allison
Anastasia Rudman
Andrea Brokaw Andrew Hatchell
Ann Walker
Anne Landaker
Anne W. Brown
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Elisa Hategan
Estara Swanberg
Francesca Myman
F.R.R. Mallory Gavran
Geoffrey Jacoby
Gregory S. Close
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Helen Davis
Hervey Allen
Hetty Lacey
Ilana
Jess Haley
James Brian Murphy
Jamie K. Schmidt
Jane Tanfei
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Jean Mornard
Jean Tatro Jenn Reese
Jennifer Chun Jill Gewirtz
Joan
Joan Marie Verba
Joanne Renaud
Jodi Davis
Joseph Hoopman
Judith Ditzler
Julia Dickinson Kathryn Huxtable
Kathryn Ewell
Kelly
Kenneth Fields
Keslynn
Klaus Kluge
Kristen Bell Kristine Smith
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Lilly Ibelo
Linda
Lisa Bouchard
Lisa Deutsch Harrigan
Leslie R. Lee Lydia Ondrusek
M Reid
M.K. Hobson
Maggie Brinkley
Marc Troeger
Maria Nutick
Maria Vagner
Marian Allen Mark Galpin
Marti McKenna
Mastadge
Max Kaehn
Megan Korchinski
Melanie Fletcher
Michael Garrett
Michelle
Michelle Ossiander
Neile
Nin Harris
Pamela Adams
Penn Davies
Peter David
Rebecca Newman
Rene Arnush
Richard G. Molpus Richard Suitor
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Robin
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About the Author...
Vera Nazarian is a two-time Nebula Award Nominee, award-winning artist, and member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, a writer with a penchant for moral fables and stories of intense wonder, true love, and intricacy.
She immigrated to the USA from the former USSR as a kid, sold her first story at the age of 17, and since then has published numerous works in anthologies and magazines, and has seen her fiction translated into eight languages.
After many years in Los Angeles, Vera lives in a small town in Vermont, and uses her Armenian sense of humor and her Russian sense of suffering to bake conflicted pirozhki and make art.