Name: Where the Dark Stands Still
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Author: A.B. Poranek
ISBN: 9781665936477

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Physical Book

Author

A.B. Poranek

Publisher

Margaret K. Mcelderry Books

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781665936477

Where the Dark Stands Still

A.B. Poranek (Author) · Margaret K. Mcelderry Books · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Where the Dark Stands Still "

A girl with dangerous magic makes a risky bargain with a demon to be free of her monstrous power in this young adult fantasy perfect for fans of An Enchantment of Ravens and House of Salt and Sorrows. Liska knows that magic is monstrous, and its practitioners are monsters. She has done everything possible to suppress her own magic, to disastrous consequences. Desperate to be free of it, Liska flees her small village and delves into the dangerous, demon-inhabited spirit-wood to steal a mythical fern flower. If she plucks it, she can use its one wish to banish her powers. Everyone who has sought the fern flower has fallen prey to unknown horrors, so when Liska is caught by the demon warden of the wood--called The Leszy--a bargain seems better than death: one year of servitude in exchange for the fern flower and its wish. Whisked away to The Leszy's crumbling manor, Liska soon makes an unsettling discovery: she is not the first person to strike this bargain, and all her predecessors have mysteriously vanished. If Liska wants to survive the year and return home, she must unravel her taciturn host's spool of secrets and face the ghosts--figurative and literal--of his past. Because something wakes in the woods, something deadly and without mercy. It frightens even The Leszy...and cannot be defeated unless Liska embraces the monster she's always feared becoming.

A.B. Poranek

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A. B. Poranek es una escritora estadounidense de fantasía, reconocida por construir historias que combinan folclore, magia oscura y protagonistas enfrentados a sociedades opresivas. Su nombre completo es A. B. Poranek, y ha mantenido deliberadamente un perfil personal relativamente discreto, dejando que su obra ocupe el centro de atención. Su primera novela, Donde mora la oscuridad (Where the Dark Stands Still), se inspira especialmente en el folclore eslavo y presenta un mundo de bosques encantados, criaturas sobrenaturales y pactos peligrosos.

La novela sigue a Liska, una joven que escapa de su aldea y termina vinculada a un espíritu del bosque conocido como el Leszy, explorando temas como la libertad, la identidad y el precio de los deseos. La obra ha destacado por su atmósfera gótica y su reinterpretación de tradiciones eslavas, consolidando a Poranek como una voz emergente dentro de la fantasía juvenil contemporánea. Donde mora la oscuridad es su novela debut.

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