<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Two contrasting tales of suspense anchor Above an Abyss: Two Novellas. In Trampoline Games, all is not well in the 1986 suburbs of Salt Lake City. In The Moth Orchid, a woman embarks on a desperate quest in hopes of finding answers when a hereditary form of early onset dementia begins to ravage her mind.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Two contrasting tales of suspense anchor <em><strong>Above an Abyss: Two Novellas</strong></em>, Ryan Masters's debut collection of fiction. In <strong><em>Trampoline Games</em>, </strong> all is not well among the sharply defined suburbs of Salt Lake City in the summer of 1986. A 12-year-old boy arrives in a land of "mountains, Mormons, crickets" to find baffling prejudice, but also intoxicating freedom, lust, moments of heaven and, in the end, a terrible violence. In <em><strong>The Moth Orchid</strong></em>, a woman embarks on a desperate quest into her past in hopes of finding answers when a hereditary form of early onset dementia begins to ravage her mind. Set against the noir backdrop of a sub-zero Alaskan winter, The Moth Orchid is a gripping tale of one woman's struggle with the inevitability of oblivion.</p><p> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Ryan Masters writes stories that pull the rug out from under you--and leave you gasping for air. I've rarely been so surprised as by stories like these. Brilliant work."--SUSIE BRIGHT</p><p> </p><p>"Whether he takes you to suffocating suburban Reagan-era Utah or snow-buried and ice-fogged Alaska, Ryan Masters deftly conjures a chilling sense of disquiet and dislocation, and leaves you with a haunting afterimage of the cruelty and chaos that lurk just under the surface of what you think is reality."--WALLACE BAINE</p><p> </p><p>"Come to Ryan Masters for the lust and violence of youth, stay for madness, decay and death. <em>Above an Abyss</em>is a Borghesian tour de force."--ELIZABET MCKENZIE</p><br>