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Book cover for "Zzino’s Pathway: A Peacock Island Story" by Julie D’Aloiso.  The illustration is created in an intricate stained-glass mosaic style with bold black leadlines dividing jewel-toned glass

Zzino's Pathway: A Peacock Island Story

by Julie D'Aloiso

Genre: Fantasy & Sci-Fi

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On her eighteenth birthday, lighthouse keeper’s daughter Ali Blacksmith sees a shadowy figure on the cliffs of Peacock Island and finds a strange glowing disc. She learns that her mother never died; she came from Zzino, a distant world. Ali and her five friends now have one weekend to find the remaining portal discs, rescue her father from the space between worlds, and keep the Slajs from shutting the bridge forever.

About the author

Julie D'Aloiso - A writer and journalist based in Northeast Ohio. Her reporting focuses on real people and real communities, but her fiction looks beyond the everyday. She is especially interested in the possibility of connecting worlds—the thin lines between the known and the unknown, and the pathways that bridge them.

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Book details

  • Formats: Paperback, eBook
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  • ISBN: 9798242446069