In a world divided by its creator - where the pure of heart live in peace on one side of a boundary in the soil and evildoers are cursed to remain on the other - a seventeen year old girl will cross the line. When Reya's fiancé Ellis is abducted and sold into slavery, her parents advise her to just accept it and go on without him. She is devastated and unable to let go of the one she loves, so she slips across the boundary into the cursed land to rescue the man she knows does not deserve to be on the other side. After crossing, she is terrorized by beings she knew nothing about - creatures that crave fear and earn it by filling her mind with images of death and suicide. Through an immense desert and a massive stone city where veiled women dare not show their faces, Reya knows it will take a miracle to find her lover. Despite disruptions by religious zealots, and with help from a crippled boy, she manages to find him. The city's Securitor presents her with a startling proposition in exchange for the young man's freedom and a powerful twist in the story illustrates a life-changing lesson about the bond between love and sacrifice. When their plans are disrupted by a man who will use her to create a scandal and steal the throne to the city, the rescuer finds herself in need of being rescued. PURIA is a world where love can mean pain, fear is a form of worship, God is real, and evil is too. With the insight of C.S. Lewis and the imagination of J.R.Tolkien, this fantasy weaves a captivating tale where good versus evil is not the end of the story.
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