About the Book
Gwen Lark knows how to Qualify, Compete, and Win . . . The time has come to Survive. The Games of the Atlantis Grail have come to a ground-shaking halt and Gwen Lark, nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl, survived the remarkable ordeal, for the time being. But the worst is yet to come! Now, both the colony planet Atlantis and Earth are under a threat of annihilation, and everything is up in the air, including dire and stunning wonders in the Atlantean skies. Will there be a Wedding? Will there be a future for Gwen Lark, her beloved, and all their families, friends, and loved ones? Is Gwen's rare and powerful talent, the Logos voice of creation, enough to resolve the greatest mystery of the Kassiopei Imperial Dynasty and its role in the events of deepest antiquity since the dawn of time? The fate of the entire human species is at stake, and now there can be no respite, not a moment to lose. The final battle is here, and Gwen, and everyone she knows and loves, are in for the greatest fight of their lives. It is time to survive.
About the Author :
Vera Nazarian is a two-time Nebula Award(R) finalist, a Dragon Award 2018 finalist, and a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. As a double refugee, after immigrating from the USSR during the Cold War, and then escaping from the Civil War in Lebanon (by way of Greece), she spent thirty-five years in Los Angeles, California. She now lives with many wacky cats 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. Vera sold her first story at seventeen, and has been published in numerous anthologies and magazines, honorably mentioned in year's best volumes, and translated into at least eight languages. She made her novelist debut with the critically acclaimed Dreams of the Compass Rose, followed by Lords of Rainbow. Her novella The Clock King and the Queen of the Hourglass made the 2005 Locus Recommended Reading List. Her debut collection Salt of the Air contains the 2007 Nebula Award-nominated "The Story of Love." Other work includes the 2008 Nebula finalist novella The Duke in His Castle, science fiction collection After the Sundial, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration, three Jane Austen parodies, Mansfield Park and Mummies, Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons, and Pride and Platypus: Mr. Darcy's Dreadful Secret, all part of her Supernatural Jane Austen series, a parody of self-help and supernatural relationships advice, Vampires are from Venus, Werewolves are from Mars: A Comprehensive Guide to Attracting Supernatural Love, Cobweb Bride Trilogy, bestselling series the Atlantis Grail, now optioned for film, which includes Qualify, Compete, Win, and Survive, novellas Aeson: Blue, Aeson: Black, fan guides The Atlantis Grail Companion, and People of the Atlantis Grail. In addition to being a writer, philosopher, and award-winning artist, she is also the publisher of Norilana Books. Currently living in Portland, Oregon, Sofia Willingham is an accomplished word nerd and voice actress. She has had the privilege of narrating multiple bestselling books for a variety of publishers. She was an APA Audie Award finalist for Release Me by J. Kenner in the erotica category, the first installment of the bestselling Stark series. This early exposure propelled her further into the universe of genres and accents, and she now records and produces audiobooks from the comfort (and dryness) of her approved home studio. Her performances have been regarded as emotionally involving and having the ability to color distinct characters consistently without getting in the way of the story. In her free time, she satisfies her morbid fixation with true crime and often wanders outdoors with an oversized puggle.