HAILEY’S HORIZON

To save his little brother, a resourceful farm boy escapes his world’s forbidden horizon and plunges into a deadly alien reality.

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Zossima Granger knew he wanted to be a novelist at age 8; at 24, he has finished his first novel, Hailey’s Horizon. An avid reader, musician and dedicated rock climber, Zossima has never attended a day of school in his life and was once nearly eaten by an Alaskan grizzly bear. Mentored in writing by novelists John David Mann and Lou Berney, he currently lives in Oklahoma.

HAILEY'S HORIZON

Hailey Hallifsson lives in fear of the horizon, a vast wall of silent mist that completely surrounds his tiny country, Verdaya. Anyone can walk into the horizon, but no one has ever returned. Ten years ago, Hailey’s father vanished into the mists.

When the horizon turns blood red, Hailey’s younger brother Ben is pulled into it by an otherworldly beast, and Hailey throws himself after him into an unknown world brimming with danger.

With the help of a mad drunk, a little girl who converses with animals, and an ethereal, glass-skinned guide, Hailey faces flaming mountains, winged shadows and his true self as he fights to save his brother from a terrible evil that walks on silent, charred feet.

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