{"product_id":"udesthas-guard-the-nascent-marco-chronicle","title":"Udestha's Guard: The Nascent Marco Chronicle","description":"\u003cp\u003eFour thousand years ago, Earth died. Eaten alive by parasites.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut in her final hours, a godlike being took pity on the humans and carried the young species across galaxies to some place new. A fresh start on a world unlike any other. Udestha: a planet vast beyond measure and alive with a mysterious energy that pulses from its core. Her forests fight back. The desert sand flows over the surface like water. Rivers of synergy carve across the sky. Even the creatures that roam its continents bear the mark of something divine. They call it a blessing. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarco isn't so sure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrown headfirst into a world of mountain-sized beasts, living landscapes, and half-gods wielding impossible magic, Marco discovers a truth far more unsettling than monsters or magic: god's plan is real.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery step. Every milestone. Every so-called choice he would ever make.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlanned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a destiny fit for a hero is presented to him, Marco is forced to confront a question that shakes the very concept of free will:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow can you choose your own path... if someone else already knows where you'll turn?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a world built by a god, where destiny moves its pawns on invisible strings, the greatest rebellion may not be against evil—\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—but against God's plan itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dorrance Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":51607685366048,"sku":null,"price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/3983\/1584\/files\/Screenshot_507.png?v=1778695115","url":"https:\/\/bookstore.dorrancepublishing.com\/products\/udesthas-guard-the-nascent-marco-chronicle","provider":"Dorrance Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}