<i>Many are called... She alone can save the world and become Death's bride.</i>

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<b>COBWEB BRIDE</b> <i>(Cobweb Bride Trilogy, Book One)</i> is a history-flavored fantasy novel with romantic elements of the Persephone myth, about Death's ultimatum to the world.

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<i>What if you killed someone and then fell in love with them?</i>

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In an <b>alternate Renaissance world</b>, somewhere in an imaginary "pocket" of Europe called the Kingdom of Lethe, <b>Death</b> comes, in the form of a grim Spaniard, to claim his <b>Bride</b>. Until she is found, in a single time-stopping moment <b>all dying stops</b>. There is no relief for the mortally wounded and the terminally ill....

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<i>Covered in white cobwebs of a thousand snow spiders she lies in the darkness... Her skin is cold as snow... Her eyes, frozen... Her gaze, fiercely alive...</i>

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While <b>kings</b> and <b>emperors</b> send expeditions to search for a suitable Bride for Death, <b>armies of the undead</b> wage an endless war... A <b>black knight</b> roams the forest at the command of his undead father... <b>Spies</b> and <b>political treacheries</b> abound at the imperial Silver Court.... <b>Murdered lovers</b> find themselves locked in the realm of the living...

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<i>Look closer -- through the cobweb filaments of her hair and along each strand shine stars...</i>

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And one small village girl, <b>Percy</b> -- an unwanted, ungainly middle daughter -- is faced with the responsibility of granting her <b>dying grandmother</b> the desperate release she needs.

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As a result, Percy joins the crowds of other young women of the land in a desperate quest to Death's own mysterious holding in the deepest forests of the North...

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And <b>everyone</b> is trying to stop her.

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"... Nazarian writes clean and true prose ..." -- <b>Publishers Weekly</b>