“The” Bones of Stars

Product DescriptionI am the blood that flows under all. . i am the fire and bones of stars'in the colossal caldera of the yellowstone national park, a geyser blows in a startling eruption of red, and young akshat disappears. This is only the tiny, terrifying start to the primal battle, now resurrected in full fury, between the two ancient foes, elrai and the edasich. As the frantic search for akshat ensues, his cousins, the child-guardians entrusted with olden secrets, come together with a coven of witches to rescue their beloved akshat-and indeed, the world-from certain peril. But will their growing powers be enough against the merciless evil let loose by the desperate and vicious hyena-faced one? will they be able to prevent a cataclysm of scorching lava and pulverized rock from reaching earth? who will finally don the good elrai's baldric and leash the trail of death and destruction?gripping and heart-stopping, the bones of stars tracks the defiant crusade of six extraordinary young people against a fAbout the AuthorGiti Chandra is Associate Professor at the Department of English, St. Stephen's College, Delhi, has a Ph.D. from Rutgers, New Jersey, on Violence and Collective Identities, and has published a book on the subject: Narrating Violence, Constructing Collective Identities: To witness these wrongs unspeakable (Macmillan UK/US, 2009). She has been a violinist with the Delhi Symphony Orchestra for many years, has been Soprano and Conductor for the St. Stephen's College Choir and the Capital City Minstrels, created and directed poetry productions for Yatrik, and is the Founder of Incidental Art, a group of actors and musicians who perform when the mood takes them. Giti lives in Gurgaon with her Icelandic husband and two daughters. The Bones of Stars is the sequel to is her first novel The Fang of Summoning.]