However nothing can prevent Mark from searching for his deceased mother, after all, he’s faced death before and prevailed but after his best friend is kidnapped and taken into Threshold, Mark decides postpone his search and right the wrongs he’s set in motion. Since it is Mark’s first infraction, Phasma lets him leave Threshold with the promise of certain death if he returns. But lucky he's not, so instead he runs into Phasma Val-Fraux-The Guardian of Threshold whose sole job is to prevent anyone still alive from delving into the realm of the dead. If he’s lucky, Mark may finally get his chance to reunite with his mother and seek her forgiveness. And although he gave up on coming to terms with that realization long ago, when he has an involuntary out-of-body experience an ethereal realm is suddenly revealed, turning his world and atheist convictions upside down. While 'normal' sixteen-year-olds are out chasing girls, Mark struggles with the fact that he may have caused his mother's death. The fact that he chooses dangerous hobbies doesn't exactly help. Book cover design for The Guardian of Threshold novel.Įver since Mark Anthony Riser’s mother passed away, he's been having close encounters with death.
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