Publisher's Synopsis
One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl and four for a boy. Five for silver, six for gold, and seven welcomes you to The Fold. Lilah's death unleashes mystical consequences on the supernatural world. And no one knows this more than her twin brother, Lars. Lars is soon thrust into a strange and dangerous world filled with magic and violence; a world that up until now he had known nothing about. The life he knows quickly unravels with dire consequences for both his own destiny, and those of the ones closest to him.A menacing society of the world's elite witching dynasties, known as The Fold, guard the mystical Seven Wonders and stand in the way of restoring magical balance to this realm. Armed with a strange ivory relic and a box of memories, Lars drags his best friend Alex into a dangerous world of witches, gypsies and dӕmons, where they're chased down by a barrage of mystical forces and dangerous creatures in search of safety and answers. All the clues - and warnings - lead to Lars and Lilah's absent father, Lord Jude. And in light of Lilah's death, the supernatural world looks to Lars for answers. But who can he and Alex trust in this new and dangerous world his sister's unfulfilled destiny has led them to? The Borrowed Destiny is Daniel Arthur's debut novel, a work that's been a decade in the making and volume one of the Thicker Than Water series.
