Far From Raven's Cliff
by Kyla Edwards Ellwyn

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Born into the shadow of Raven’s Cliff, Gerry Edwards learned early that childhood could be shaped by silence, fear, and the hard lessons of survival. In a farmhouse marked by alcoholism, madness, violence, and grief, Gerry found refuge in imagination — in ravines that became kingdoms, ravens that became watchers, and dragons that were both inheritance and warning. After tragedy tears his family apart, Gerry carries the wounds of his past into a restless life of reinvention. From Ontario to Toronto, Alaska, Vancouver, San Francisco, and back again, he searches for meaning in art, work, love, danger, mysticism, and the strange power of the unseen. Along the way he becomes a scholar, fighter, seeker, builder, husband, and father — always pursued by the question of whether a person can transform what they have inherited, or whether the old fire will consume them. At the centre of his journey is Linora: fierce, wounded, magnetic, and impossible to tame. Together they build a life touched by love, ambition, spiritual hunger, and forces neither of them fully understands. As Gerry follows the dragon through family history, grief, faith, desire, and fate, he must discover whether the fire passed down through generations is a curse — or the very thing that might light the way home. A sweeping biographical novel of trauma, resilience, love, and legacy, this is the story of one man’s lifelong search to turn pain into meaning, inheritance into choice, and darkness into something powerful enough to survive.

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Kyla Edwards is a Canadian author, storyteller, spiritual writer, mortician, funeral director, parapsychologist, paranormal investigator, and lifelong seeker of the hidden histories that shape life. Her writing often moves between memoir, biography, folklore, intuition, and the unseen threads that connect grief, ancestry, love, and transformation. Drawing from family memory, inherited stories, personal reflection, and a deep fascination with the mystical, Kyla writes with honesty about trauma, resilience, spiritual searching, and the complicated beauty of human survival. Her work gives voice to the silences families carry, exploring how pain can travel through generations - and how truth, love, humour, and imagination can become forms of healing. She is the author of several FriesenPress publications, including Tarot Etc; I Am Witch, Tarot Etc; On All Realms, Tarot Etc; Tarot Is Life, and Haunted Steveston: A Walk Through Murder, Mystery & Mayhem, co-authored with Lynne White. In this biographical novel, Kyla turns her attention to the life of her father, Gerry Edwards, and the family legacy that shaped him. Written with love, courage, and reverence, this book is both a tribute and an act of remembrance — a daughter reaching back through story to understand the fire she inherited. Kyla lives in British Columbia, where she continues to write, explore the mystical arts, and tell the stories that refuse to be forgotten.

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