The Purple River

By Shane Cogan

THE PURPLE RIVER is a fantasy/sci-fi novel with a dystopian theme.

The story develops with news of a crime on Planet Atis in a distant galaxy: the wife of King Fareth has disappeared, with a bullet found at the edge of a lake where she was last seen. However, the crime is highly unusual as there has been no crime whatsoever on the planet for 300 years. Planet Atis has no army, police force, security or any form of guards. It's a planet that is still coming to terms with a mysterious virus and subsequent wars that killed most of its population and changed the way its people behaved, interacted and lived over the past few hundred years. Puzzling as this crime looks, it's not the heart of the story's mystery. Coupled with this crisis, there are murmurings of strange dark deities on the planets highest mountain, and shape shifting creatures in the dense forests, close the Palace and capital city, where most of the populace live.

There is also the presence of a sole character on another planet.

Who exactly is the other being on the other planet?
Who are these new dark deities that reside on the planets largest mountain?
And what is it with the Kings brother and his special powers and magic in the nearby forest?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1728659574
• ISBN13: 9781728659572
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"