The Fang of Summoning

Product Description You will never have it', she whispered. 'Not in this life.' In the frozen mountains of Iceland, amid the leaping Northern lights Vasuki - the giver of life, Protector and Friend - leaves a vital secret with a young girl. Over a thousand years later, in the bustling suburb of Gurgaon in India, six young people with startling gifts discover the secret. Hurled into a testing crusade against the terrifying Adversary, they are called upon to decipher the long-buried past and save the future of mankind. They have no choice but to follow a destiny enmeshed with the fate of dying planets ancient, warriors and the Universe. Racy and spell binding, The Fang of Summoning is the story of inconceivable danger that can continually threaten life as you know it. And end it forever. About the Author Giti Chandra is Assistant Professor English at St. Stephen's College, Delhi. She has a PhD 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. A trained soprano and violinist, she was part of the Delhi Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 1995, and conducted the Capital City Minstrels, the best-known western classical choir in Delhi, from 2001 to 2007. Giti lives in Gurgaon with her husband Gunnar and two daughters. The Fang of Summoning is her first novel.