Again To Live
Book 9 of Ravenwood: A Seeker's Memoir
Stunned in the Ravenwood Disaster, Jack wanders again through the Gray Land to a vast Silent Museum between the worlds. Can he ever find the way home? And if he does, what further losses await him? As his own needs and others’ pull him in opposite directions he must decide what it really means to live again, and what he’s willing to risk so others can.
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The doom has fallen: the doom now called the Ravenwood Disaster, for many died there in Magus’ Crypt. Burned, blinded, stunned by the deaths of friends and numbed by drugs for pain, Jack stumbles through gray despair. Will he ever see Norma again, or Suzanne? Will he ever see again?
Yet though his eyes are bandaged, the inner mind-vision of witches and shamans remains. Gray too is the world that vision shows him, full of lost and forsaken things, and gray the empty road he finds before him. Where does it lead? What is that weird sound he hears: like a wind’s mad piping, though Jack can feel no wind on that empty road? And why does that sound seem so uncannily familiar?
Follow Jack as he makes his way homeward through that world and others: finding despair but also beauty and hope he may someday return Again To Live on Earth.
Setting
Genre
Published
Themes
- Surviving Catastrophe and Learning to Live Again
- Love, Grief, and the Persistence of Chosen Family
- The Responsibilities and Costs of Magic
- Crossing Thresholds Between Life and Death
Characters
Jack Peredur · Chemistry grad student and narrator; survivor of the Ravenwood fire undergoing painful physical recovery; deciding whether to return home, remain in The Garret, or follow the Mist into a new kind of life.
Suzanne “Sue” Marat · French-American witch and seamstress in Arborville; Jack’s closest living ally after Ravenwood; balancing grief, mundane work, a new relationship, and her deepening bond with Jack and The Garret.
Melusine “Mel” Collins · Centuries-old witch reborn in the Mist; fierce companion and guide through the Elemental Gates; stepping into a perilous destined role as the one who must pass the Watchers and attempt to free Astura.
Norma Stevens (“Aiolynn”) · Jack’s first great love and fellow witch; physically gone after Ravenwood yet present in memory, ritual, and the Mist; becoming the central wound and touchstone shaping how Jack grieves, loves, and risks himself.
Alaine Ehrhardt · High Priestess of The Garret coven lost in the disaster; still guiding Jack and Mel through her Book of Shadows and tools; serving as unseen mentor as they rebuild the coven’s work in both worlds.
Brian Adams · Journalism grad student and Suzanne’s new boyfriend; outsider to the coven’s magic; wrestling with atheism, jealousy, and whether he can accept Sue’s spiritual world as more than delusion.
