About this ebook
From the acclaimed author of THE PILO FAMILY CIRCUS comes a stunning new fantasy, more real than you can imagine ...
Eric Albright is leading a normal life until a small red door appears under a train bridge near his home. then a ghostly being wakes him in the dead of night, with a message from another world: You are Shadow.In Levaal, the world between worlds, the dragon-gods grow restless in their sky prisons, and the Great Spirits struggle to contain them. Vous, the world's Friend and Lord, simmers in madness as he schemes to join the ranks of gods. He and the Arch Mage have almost won their final victory over the Free Cities. A dark age dawns.But Eric and his friend Case are now Pilgrims, called to Levaal for a battle more ancient than the petty squabbles of men. And they will learn why some doors should not be opened ...PRAISE FOR WILL ELLIOtt:'Inventive, scary and darkly humorous' tHE OBSERVER
Eric Albright is leading a normal life until a small red door appears under a train bridge near his home. then a ghostly being wakes him in the dead of night, with a message from another world: You are Shadow.In Levaal, the world between worlds, the dragon-gods grow restless in their sky prisons, and the Great Spirits struggle to contain them. Vous, the world's Friend and Lord, simmers in madness as he schemes to join the ranks of gods. He and the Arch Mage have almost won their final victory over the Free Cities. A dark age dawns.But Eric and his friend Case are now Pilgrims, called to Levaal for a battle more ancient than the petty squabbles of men. And they will learn why some doors should not be opened ...PRAISE FOR WILL ELLIOtt:'Inventive, scary and darkly humorous' tHE OBSERVER
About the author
Will Elliott won the ABC manuscript award with The Pilo Family Circus; in 2006 it won the Golden Aurealis Award and was published in the UK, US, Italy and Germany to great acclaim. He also won The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Award, a Spanish Nocte award for Best Foreign Novel, a Ditmar award for Best Novel and was shortlisted for the International Horror Guild Award. He published a memoir, Strange Places, with ABC books in 2009 and the Pendulum fantasy trilogy with Voyager in 2010 and 2011. His standalone novel Nightfall was published in 2012. He lives in Brisbane.
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