The Chalice

Halstead, Joe

ISBN 10: 0578843641 / ISBN 13: 9780578843643

Published by Joe Halstead, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Chalice
• Publisher: Joe Halstead
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0578843641
• ISBN 13: 9780578843643
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The haunted water of the Chalice is passport into unforgettable worlds. When our hero, Joe, enters, he finds Escarpa, a desert metropolis both unmistakable and unforgettable—and where sorcery is commonplace. There’s an infinite library. A pyramid that harbors an evil camel who’s already made one catastrophic appearance in Escarpa. Cell phones are charged with the arcane. Sex is a sacrament. There, Joe struggles to cope with the aftermath of a crisis that befell his marriage in his world. After being recruited to work for a secretive innovator of electronics that specialize in modern magic, he meets Vesper, a woman with whom the future looks bright. It’s complicated enough, but then Joe runs into his wife in Escarpa, and it revives memories from his marriage he thought he buried a long time ago. What really happened back then? What precipitated the bitter falling out with his wife? And, is there any magic left? Halstead has crafted a stunningly beautiful world that is both familiar and unfamiliar—and a love story that never loses sight of its mistakes and heartbreaks.