Silver Lady

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The world is fraying. Art is disappearing. And one woman sets out on the river before everything changes forever.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A few years into the future society is unraveling. Violence is rising. The aftermath of a devastating pandemic still lingers. And across the country a phenomenon known only as </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>the Vanishing</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is causing people and works of art to disappear without explanation.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Cassie Navrone a widowed retired teacher with silver braids and a restless spirit takes a job piloting a luxury houseboat called the </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Silver Lady</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> downriver to its owner. What begins as a long-awaited escape soon becomes something stranger: a journey through a world tilting out of balance.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>On board are five fellow travelers-artists poets lovers and drifters-each carrying private griefs secrets and reasons for boarding the boat. As the river unfolds so do eerie landscapes dreamlike encounters unsettling towns pirates storms and glimpses of another reality just beyond the visible one.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But as the voyage grows more surreal Cassie must do more than keep the boat afloat. She must hold together a fragile crew face the life she left behind and decide whether the river is carrying them toward safety transformation...or something they may never fully understand.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Lyrical strange and deeply human </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Silver Lady</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is a magical realism novel about survival reinvention art and the mystery waiting around the next bend.</span></p><p><strong>Sage has crafted a unique near-future post-pandemic world where Art is vanishing and the world is chaotic. <em>The Silver Lady </em>drifts downriver in a dreamlike state slipping through time and reality past and present in a world with ever-changing rules making you question what is real... -Lena Gibson author of <em>The Edge of Life: Love and Survival During the Apocalypse</em></strong></p><p></p>