To save the love of his life, a spirited and eccentric loner teams up with a shapeshifting raven to lift an ancient curse from a corrupt and tyrannical family. Two families are at war and the feud goes back years. The year is 1996. Finn Milton has been living a strange double life, denying his true calling. He has been inexplicably in love with Ellie Morgan for nearly twenty years - only she cannot see, hear or remember him. He is also dealing with strange supernatural powers he has little control over. An emerging writer, he is trying to escape his darker past but can no longer ignore it. She is an aspiring artist but already a victim of their past and forced to live a life like no other. The Connellys have a history of unexplainable power. They are victims to no one. Unpredictable, not even their own kin are safe from their ruthless appetite to dominate and intimidate others. Ghosts of The Talisman, Volume 1 - Etherea is part one of a series of paranormal fantasy science fiction stories set in and around St. Ives, Cornwall.