Jessica Lark

Jessica Lark is an Artist, Author, Mother, and Philanthropist Humanitarian. She has been a keynote speaker, taught on stage at the largest photography conventions in the world to sold-out master classes, and had students from more than 18 different countries apprentice under her. She is also the founder of the Elysian Sanctuary, a non profit that nurtures the careers of creatives, through community impact residencies.

Recently she gave up a very successful studio business to focus on her new Ennealogy: The Reliquarian.

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In the Province of Orenda, the worlds are not only flat but turn as an interdependent collection of gears, all powered by a mysterious numen key that looks like a metal girl.

When a child finds her way into a forgotten garden and discovers the remnants of this figure, she finds the chest open with gears and pieces removed. A quest far too great for one so small, she must journey the realms in search of the missing pieces, and quite literally mend the Girl With the Broken Heart. If not, the realms will cease to turn and all that exists will perish.

Where the lines between Magic, Science, and Spirituality have all overlapped, a war between god-like sisters, ancient orders, and rivaling civilizations is raging. She'll learn of legends, life lessons, lust, and love in all its forms. She'll dance with tree spirits in the Forest of Essence, read magic books in the great halls of the Library of Eloquence, find lost things in the Atheneum, and experience poise, properness, and imprisonment in the great city's Menagerie. She'll drink with gypsies, and sail with pirates; she'll lose loved ones, lose her way, and lose her faith. as she makes impossible choices and an impossible climb to keep her promise.

A tryst between mythology, self-reflection, and prose, braided into a full-length novel, and elegantly dressed as a photographically illustrated storybook; The Reliquarian is unlike anything you've encountered from the gorgeous chaotic mind of Author and Artist Jessica Lark.