Overview
A modern fantasy for everyone who'd leave their nine-to-five and return to Narnia and Neverland.
When they were children, Bobby and Derek discovered Telagon, a secret, fantastical world of magic, talking animals, living mountains, and dark demons who haunt the forests. They ruled over this land as benevolent monarchs, fought evil, and liberated the citizens from tyranny.
That’s what Derek remembers, at least. Bobby has other things to worry about. A client is threatening to leave his firm if litigation isn’t expedited. His new backyard deck isn’t up to code and his contractor won’t call him back. His aging father might need to move into an assisted living facility.
So Bobby is both annoyed and concerned when Derek shows up in a nearby park preaching the wonders of Telagon. There are secrets about that place, after all. Secrets that Bobby would rather Derek not talk about. But when his father goes missing - with the transmitter necessary for observing and entering Telagon - Bobby must go on a journey to find him, expose the truth of Derek’s propaganda, and maybe even save Telagon itself.
A novel about belief, estrangement, and what happens when the world you wished was real turns out to be so much more complex than the mythology ever promised.
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