Book description
What if mere mortals could meet their Gods and learn the answers to
life's most mysterious questions?
Now they can.
Imagine a planet with two blazing suns. A world inhabited by
mortals with flaming red hair, saffron colored skin, and violet eyes.
A place where extreme and often violent weather conditions force the
people underground where they will be safe...until the next furious
storm strikes. This strange land is El Sod-A-Por, the ill-favored one,
and in the far distance sits the Green Mountain, home of the Gods --
Gods who have no mercy. But everything changes when a fearless young
man, Far-Awn, defies his father's warnings and travels tirelessly, in
search of a star-shaped opalescent flower.
This miraculous plant becomes the source of never-ending food and
can even be made into clear atmospheric domes, which enclose entire
cities to ensure peace and protection.
Years later El Sod-A-Por is known as El Dorriane, the ideal, and
Ras-Far, grandson of the revered Far-Awn, is king. The people happily
live a life of plenty -- until an entire city is mysteriously wiped
out. A civil war between the Upper and Lower Dorrianians ignites,
forcing the king to send an entourage of the bravest and strongest men
from each province to the Green Mountain to seek answers to this
unexpected unrest.
Ras-Far's only child, the beautiful and headstrong Sharita, demands
to go with the men across the arid desert plains to meet the Gods.
The handsome barbarian Dray-Gon, from Lower Dorriane, leads the
expedition, but he sees the princess as an unnecessary burden. Now he
will have to shield her from the ruthless sandstorms and evil outlaws
who will attempt to enslave her at any opportunity. As the
unprecedented journey begins, their love-hate relationship transforms
into an enthralling passion, as the princess's icy exterior begins to
thaw and Dray-Gon turns from a hard-edged savage into a gentle hero.
But when they finally reach the Green Mountain, they are met with a
shocking revelation that challenges everything they ever believed to
be true....
One of the most popular authors of all time, V. C.
Andrews has been a bestselling phenomenon since the publication of
the spellbinding classic Flowers in the Attic. That blockbuster
novel began the renowned Dollanganger family saga, which
includes Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of
Yesterday, and Garden of Shadows. Since then, readers
have been captivated by more than sixty novels in nearly twenty
bestselling series. V. C. Andrews's novels have sold more than 106
million copies and have been translated into twenty-two foreign
languages.
