Set against the breathtaking backdrop of a hill station of Eastern India, Darjeeling, this middle grade fiction swings through love for family, friendship, and the chosen one trope. Rea and the Blood of the Nectar is a middle grade fantasy that thrills through a secret quest and explores family dynamics. This debut brings magical creatures and an otherworldly portal to a life of family, friendship, and prophecy. Secrets transpiring through generations and an evil queen desperate for power. Can she rescue Rohan, save Astranthia, and live to see it all?Īn adventure across realms. Struggling with the truth her Amma has kept hidden from her, Rea must solve clues that lead to Rohan, find a way to rescue him and save Astranthia from a potentially deadly fate. Rea also discovers that she is a princess with magic. There with the help of Xeranther, an Astranthian barrow boy, and Flula, a pari, Rea battles serpent-lilies and blood-sucking banshees, encounters a butterfly-faced woman and blue lizard-men, and learns that Rohan has been captured. In the shade of night, they portal into an otherworldly realm and travel to Astranthia, a land full of magic and whimsy. Unwilling to give up on her brother, Rea and her friend Leela meet Mishti Daadi, a wrinkly old fortune-teller whose powers of divination set them off on a thrilling and secret quest. Her grandmother, too, is behaving strangely. It hasn’t even been a day and Amma acts like Rohan's gone forever. It’s four in the morning and Rohan is nowhere to be found. After a big fight with her twin brother Rohan on their birthday, Rea's life in the small village of Darjeeling, India, gets turned on its head. It all begins on the night Rea turns twelve. The clock is ticking in this adventure rife with evil creatures, a ruthless villain, and unforgettable friendships.
For fans of Aru Shah and The Chronicles of Narnia, this middle-grade fantasy is about twelve-year-old Rea Chettri, who portals into an otherworldly realm to go on a secret quest to find her missing twin brother Rohan.
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