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THE VENGEKEEP PROPHECIES
"In a nice twist on Harry Potterlike fantasies of wizards in school, Farrey launches a rollicking saga of life among the Grimjinx, a clan of petty thieves, fortune-tellers, and the ultimate saviors of their Middle Ages-esque world." - Booklist
"Farrey's rich fantasy hits the ground running and never lets up. Jaxter has an amazing talent for defeating magic with science, and a strong theme of the value of knowledge runs through the book." - Publisher's Weekly
You can't prosecute what you can't prove." That's the motto of 13-year-old Jazza Nedson and his infamous con artist family. And while Jazza may not have his father's burglary prowess, his mother's forgery skills, or his little sister's mastery of sleight-of- hand, his book-fed knowledge of non-magical solutions to magical problems makes him a valuable member of his familial den of thieves.
But the Nedsons may have pulled one con too many in their hometown, Vengekeep. After swapping the prophetic tapestry used to guide Vengekeep's actions for a fake concocted by Jazza's mother, the Nedsons are stunned when the false prophecies begin coming true, bringing destruction in their wake. Suddenly, Vengekeep is besieged by "natural" disasters and flaming monsters, courtesy of the secretly enchanted counterfeit tapestry. With his family forced to stay and combat the impending doom, Jazza must leave his hometown in search of a way to keep the increasingly dangerous prophecies from wiping Vengekeep off the map.
Brian Farrey is an acquisitions editor at Flux Books, and recently completed his MFA in Creative Writing at Hamline University in St. Paul. Simon Pulse is publishing his first book, the YA novel Chasers, this Fall.
"Farrey's rich fantasy hits the ground running and never lets up. Jaxter has an amazing talent for defeating magic with science, and a strong theme of the value of knowledge runs through the book." - Publisher's Weekly
You can't prosecute what you can't prove." That's the motto of 13-year-old Jazza Nedson and his infamous con artist family. And while Jazza may not have his father's burglary prowess, his mother's forgery skills, or his little sister's mastery of sleight-of- hand, his book-fed knowledge of non-magical solutions to magical problems makes him a valuable member of his familial den of thieves.
But the Nedsons may have pulled one con too many in their hometown, Vengekeep. After swapping the prophetic tapestry used to guide Vengekeep's actions for a fake concocted by Jazza's mother, the Nedsons are stunned when the false prophecies begin coming true, bringing destruction in their wake. Suddenly, Vengekeep is besieged by "natural" disasters and flaming monsters, courtesy of the secretly enchanted counterfeit tapestry. With his family forced to stay and combat the impending doom, Jazza must leave his hometown in search of a way to keep the increasingly dangerous prophecies from wiping Vengekeep off the map.
Brian Farrey is an acquisitions editor at Flux Books, and recently completed his MFA in Creative Writing at Hamline University in St. Paul. Simon Pulse is publishing his first book, the YA novel Chasers, this Fall.
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