The Venners Circle

Mythophilic sixteen-year-old Trida is searching for the origins of violence
against girls and women, accepted as the fate as of the members of the
inferior sex. Certain that the answers lie in the Bronze Age depicted in its ancient
stories and myths, she uses her training as a televenner to travel from her late
nineteenth-century world of Bajanland to Noahland.

There, she witnesses what the storytellers and mythmakers omitted, amply
satisfying her quest for knowledge, including the mischievous and the malevolent
who interact with humans-hybrid human-animals and human-birds. She also
meets her archenemy, Serpent Azal, who informs her that the two will battle
in Spiceland, a neighboring island. Meanwhile, Ghianel, her fellow televenner
who traveled to Izramland, is attacked by a mysterious interceptor and wounded.
The two return home to prepare for the Spiceland battle to be fought with two
other teenage warriors of their Ameshan community. All four possess powers
to manipulate the natural elements through skills, dormant for millennia among
their ancestors, now enlivened in them. In Spiceland, their allies are teenagers
of Turahan descent-also with special powers, who are fighting for freedom from
centuries-old enslavement-and must deal with a somewhat formidable enemy, a
young Isleslandan soldier possessing powers equal to theirs.

The Venners Circle interweaves ancient beliefs with modern technology to
suggest that the time-space continuum is far more malleable than traditional
interpretations of ancient cultures have suggested, and racism and sexism are
modern tools of an archetypal female-not male-enemy.