THE SKY MENDER

THE SKY-MENDER SUMMARY: The Sky-Mender is a gritty dark fantasy that follows Dule, a lame cobbler’s apprentice living in the filth-ridden slums of a magic-dependent capital. When the sky literally shatters—an event known as the breaking of the Heart-Abyss—the kingdom’s magic begins to rot, and a violet-black light threatens to consume the world. Through a twist of fate and a "dream" of purple light, Dule is identified as the Child of Prophecy. Dragged to the palace, he is forced to use his own body as a living plug. By embedding enchanted amethyst shards into his legs, he "mends" the sky, but at a terrible price: he is permanently fused to a stone pedestal in the center of the city, his legs turned to unfeeling crystal.