Author(s): GABRIELA HOUSTON

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Featuring a colourful Slavic cast of tempestuous gods and frightening monsters, this is a story about friendship, and how far you would go - and what you would sacrifice - to avoid saying goodbye to someone you love. No human has ever returned from Navia, the Slavic afterlife. But twelve-year-old Mara is not entirely human - she is the granddaughter of Stribog, the god of winter winds, and she's determined to bring her beloved father back from the dead. So she and her best friend (and bear-shifter) Torniv set out on an epic journey to defy the gods and rescue her father. They will have to face forest lords, enchanted goddesses, the stormy seas, and the villainous Baba Latingorka. And little do they know of the terrible forces they have set in motion - for the world is full of darkness, and Mara will have to rely on her wits to survive. AGES: 6 to 12 AUTHOR: Gabriela moved to London from Poland when she was nineteen to complete her English Literature degree and a Masters in literatures of modernity, post-modernity and postcolonialism. Since then, Gabriela has worked for a trade publisher as an assistant editor and as a freelance writer for a technology and business website. Gabriela's short stories have been selected for the Editor's Choice Review by Bewildering Stories and have been featured on the Ladies of Horror Fiction podcast.