Fiddler’s Rose

Rose is a young sorceress with problems. She’s turning into a dragon. She’s falling in love with a ghost. And she REALLY needs to get her hands on a dagger that’s buried in the mud, 500 miles from nowhere, under 2000 fathoms of ocean.

Fiddler’s Rose is an epic quest wrapped around a love story set in a quasi-medieval magical otherworld, told almost entirely in deft, naturalistic dialog that is usually witty, sometimes hilarious, and occasionally profound. The main characters are very real, in spite of the fact that neither of them is quite human. While the format significantly limits sensory information, it also presents emotional reality with rare clarity as the characters face horror, despair, and joy in the course of their journey.

Love doesn’t need to be graphic to engage your heart, and horror doesn’t need to be explicit to invade your dreams.