Travis Wilder, bar-owner and drifter, is given a mysterious stone by a friend. Grace Beckett, ER doctor, finds a gunshot victim with a heart of iron. Both Travis and Grace must step beyond the pale and enter Eldh, a world where they are caught in a battle between good and evil.
I think this book was my first real foray into Fantasy. I must have read it when I was thirteen, and I remember stalking book stores trying to find the remaining books in the series and failing. Also I was too young to drive soooo…. Anyway, I still remember scenes from the book. That’s how much of an impression it made on me. In this digital age (how old am I? Wow.) it should be easier to find this series. My quest begins!
Later he was trained as a paleoanthropologist but along the way grew interested in a different sort of human evolution—the symbolic progress reflected in myth and the literature of the fantastic. He undertook Beyond the Pale to explore the idea that reason and wonder need not exist in conflict.
Mark Anthony lives and writes in Colorado, where he is currently at work on his next writing project.
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