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Abigail Mangin

Abigail Mangin

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The Maker of Worlds

The Maker of Worlds

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<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 14px;color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="font-weight:700;font-style:italic;">If you had the chance to remake the world, what kind of world would you choose?</span></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:-4px 0px 14px;color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><span>When tragedy strikes Lucas Mack's young life, he desperately yearns to escape its sorrow, and takes an improbable leap through the mythical maelstrom. Rather than splashing down on the far side like his neighbors, he's transported to a magical realm where he has the power to redefine not only who he is, but the world in which he resides.</span></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:-4px 0px 14px;color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><span>As he stumbles about trying to find his way, he meets Mia, an equally troubled fellow pilgrim. With the help of a mystical guide and an aging wizard, they navigate the enchanted land while learning to control their newfound powers. Yet this realm is more complex than they expected, with seasoned sorcerers who've been corrupted by the sinister side of magic.</span></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:-4px 0px 14px;color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><span>Limited by natural law and seduced by magic's power, they are tested as never before. Will the gift of magic bring renewed hope or drive them to the edge of the void?</span></p>

Story Behind The Book

Condom dresses and space helmets have debuted on fashion runways. A dead body becomes the trend when a coat made of human skin saunters down fashion’s biggest stage. The body is identified as Annabelle Leigh, the teenager who famously disappeared over a decade ago from her boyfriend’s New York City mansion. This new evidence casts suspicion back on the former boyfriend, Cecil LeClaire. Now a monk, he is forced to return to his dark and absurd childhood home to clear his name. He teams up with Ava Germaine, a renegade ex-model. And together, they investigate the depraved and lawless modeling industry behind Cecil’s family fortune. They find erotic canes, pet rats living in crystal castles, and dresses made of crushed butterfly wings. But Cecil finds more truth in the luxury goods than in the people themselves. Everyone he meets seems to be wearing a person-suit. Terrified of showing their true selves, the glitterati put on flamboyant public personas to make money and friends. Can Cecil find truth in a world built on lies? In high fashion modeling, selling bodies is organized crime.

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Kirkus Reviews

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Pacific Book Review

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Reviews

<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'baskerville-urw';font-size:17.25px;letter-spacing:.1725px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252);">&quot;A somber, disturbing mystery fused with a scathing look at the fashion industry. Mangin writes in a confident, razor-edged style.&quot; - <strong>Kirkus Reviews</strong>&quot;</p> <p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'baskerville-urw';font-size:17.25px;letter-spacing:.1725px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252);">Beautifully packaged and true to its idealistic vision, Size Zero pierces the myths that perpetuate and protect an abusive, exploitative industry.&quot; - <strong>Foreword Reviews</strong></p> <p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'baskerville-urw';font-size:17.25px;letter-spacing:.1725px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252);">&quot;A sharply perverse dark comedy set in the high fashion industry&quot; -<strong> IndieReader</strong></p> <p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'baskerville-urw';font-size:17.25px;letter-spacing:.1725px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252);">&quot;Size Zero is that kind of book that gets you off a reader's block moment.&quot; - <strong>Pacific Book Review (starred review)</strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'baskerville-urw';font-size:17.25px;letter-spacing:.1725px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252);">“Size Zero is visceral and disturbing. The narrative exposes the dark underbelly of modeling, focusing on unethical practices, charlatans, mental and physical illnesses, and the abuse that young women face as they pursue celebrity. Elements of the novel are splashy and outré, distorting stereotypes of glitterati and their carefully guarded world.” <strong>- Foreword Reviews</strong></p>