Dryad: From Tree to Shining Tree

By M. Glyn Long

This wonderfully imaginative contemporary fantasy novel brings together a lively cast of unique characters in a wide-ranging adventure to save the dryads-mystical, tree-loving entities with roots in ancient Greece, whose outward appearance and behavior is otherwise identical to that of normal human beings. Sent to New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, FBI trainee Gina Roverati is the primary investigator in the case of a mysterious object dubbed the Devil's Pouch. It was revealed when the Oak of Hammond, a championed oak tree that had been alive since long before Columbus discovered the New World, was uprooted in the storm. But it is a certain item, subsequently discovered within the pouch that unleashes an even greater storm among the investigating intelligence community in view of its unimaginable value to national defense. Little does Gina know, she will soon find herself working as a double agent, pitted against her own task force partner, a megalomaniacal CIA agent named Andrew Pollock, to help the secret community of dryads. Gina's moment of truth comes when a hosted-dryadic entity, recognizing Gina's own distinctive dryadic aura, reveals its joint identity to her, subsequently transporting her from their sacred oak in New York City's Central Park to their home beneath another sacred oak in London. In this modern era, the increasing depletion of trees is threatening the dryads' ongoing existence. It's all up to the courageous and resourceful neodryad Gina to make sure they will survive!

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512323063
• ISBN13: 9781512323061
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"