The Dark Side of the Sky – A page-turning literary fantasy filled with terror and wonder (Paperback)

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On the rural coast of Puglia, Becca and Ric offer refuge to those who feel unmoored from the world. The Bastion is a place of shared meals, ritual, and release, where new arrivals are invited to lay down their burdens and imagine something better taking shape. To its followers, it is sanctuary. To outsiders, something far more troubling.

In The Dark Side of the Sky, the story unfolds through testimony and belief, drawing readers into a community that insists on telling its own version of events. Beneath the language of healing and renewal lies a deeper purpose tied to the Inner Pinewood, a place of quiet beauty and unsettling power. Whatever waits there is not metaphor alone.

As accusations gather and former members speak out, certainty becomes slippery. Are Becca and Ric guides, manipulators, or both? Is the threat they claim to face real, or a story shaped to bind people closer together?

The Dark Side of the Sky lives in that uncertainty, exploring faith, charisma, and the human need to believe. It asks where protection ends and control begins, and what it costs to place your future in someone else’s hands.