Its fate is destined by the energy of the ethereal and the mental health of Evelin Boots.Įnter the surreal world of Mare-Marie, where magic is banned and a peculiar princess, Belleny, remains indoors, unable to bear the outside world. Both girls are placed in time across two lands one in reality as we know it, the other, Mare-Marie, created as a metaphysical realm. Entwined by action and consequence, the key protagonists are teenagers Evelin Boots and Belleny Vera.

This enchanting narrative shares two abstract tales as one extraordinary journey. It's a race against time for Evelin to find solace and peace within herself before her anxieties bring eternal darkness across another realm.This enchanting novel shares two tales of a singular journey, all entwined in the ethereal, the abstract and the unique pastiche of the lives of others.Sometimes to tell one story.two must be told. With rising confliction and burgeoning anxiety, she is unaware of her unconscious psychic ability which causes paradigm shifts in the parallel Mare-Marie.A premonition is forewarned when a roaring wind rips across the arid and engulfing Vheen Desert, when a dark and pendulous sky meets a rising and blackening sea, a light will go out and all creatures in Mare-Marie will be devoured. The young Princess and her close knit of friends are awoken by a mysterious newcomer, the two tailed Bateau whose presence causes a chain reaction of dramatic and bewitching events which lead into a battle of justice and honour against a vengeful witch and her rising army.Positioned in reality as we know it, there's a bright and volatile teenager named Evelin Boots who is seeking a normal existence with her best friend Milton. Time is idling away in their quiet existence. Princess Belleny is a recluse, she withers away physically and emotionally in a self confined tomb solace with her mutant friends in Castle Crystalon. A once ethereal foreshore, is now a spawning and fetid ditch of macabre and gruesome creatures, oddities and wicked curses.

Enter a world of whimsy, abandoned forests, dark glens and peculiarities that make the foundations of metaphysical Mare-Marie.

The Other Side of Eve by Paul Ikin