(ARACHNE is a dark fantasy, gothic, paranormal and steampunk fairy tale with a young adult protagonist.)

ARACHNE Book II – THE WEAVE OF FATE concludes the epic dark fantasy chronicled in Book I – DEATH, THE BEGINNING.Arachne is stolen away to champion the spider-goddess Atropos, caught in an eternal war between the Fates and a once-mortal god known as the Idolater.Seeking to free the soul of her sister, Arachne must journey through the underworld of Embris, where she learns of the horrible truth:the Idolater’s armies of undead eidolons are legion, and his deathless creations threaten to overwhelm Embris and the last defiant Kingdom of Candle.Falling in with an eccentric ethernaut and Steam-Lord known as the Tatterdemalion, Arachne must brave the eidolon legions, the corobane tempest, and the forest of the timbrewulfen.As she comes to Candle and prepares to fight the final battle for Embris, a terrible secret threatens to destroy her.Far beneath Candle looms the Pyre, a crucible of souls, where her imprisoned sister Christabel may await.What price is Arachne willing to pay to save her sister’s soul?Will she dare to sacrifice herself for all of Embris, and for the one she loves?

(A complete novel, preceded by Book I – Death, the Beginning, also available from Wonderland Imprints.100,000 words, 38 chapters, 334 pages.)