From Beacon Hill to Southie, historic Boston is a town of vibrant neighborhoods knit into a seamless whole. But as Jim Banks and Trix Newcomb learn in a terrifying instant, it is also a city divided-split into three separate versions of itself by a mad magician once tasked with its protection.
Jim is happily married to Jenny, with whom he has a young daughter, Holly. Trix is Jenny's best friend, practically a member of the family-although she has secretly been in love with Jenny for years. Then Jenny and Holly inexplicably disappear-and leave behind a Boston in which they never existed. Only Jim and Trix remember them. Only Jim and Trix can bring them back.
With the help of Boston's Oracle, an elderly woman with magical powers, Jim and Trix travel between the fractured cities, for that is where Jenny and Holly have gone. But more is at stake than one family's happiness. If Jim and Trix should fail, the spell holding the separate Bostons apart will fail too, and the cities will reintegrate in a cataclysmic implosion. Someone, it seems, wants just that. Someone with deadly shadow men at their disposal.
A rerelease from dark fantasy all-stars Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon, the Hidden Series continues to excavate the mysterious past of the world's cities, this time questioning what sinister workings have shaped Boston.
"Golden and Lebbon have far outstripped their past efforts with this wonderfully creepy thriller of a ghost story."-
Publishers Weekly starred review for
The Map of Moments
"Golden and Lebbon vividly evoke the rich, enduring character of New Orleans, as well as spinning a compelling fantasy yarn that builds momentum as Max works his way through the city's history."-
Booklist on
The Map of Moments
"A new book by Golden means only one thing: the reader is in for a treat. His books are rich with texture and characters, always inventive, and totally addictive."-Charles de Lint, author of
Promises to Keep
"Christopher Golden is one of the most hardworking, smartest, and talented writers of his generation, and his books are so good and so involving that they really ought to sell in huge numbers. Everything he writes glows with imagination."-Peter Straub, author of
In the Night Room
"Tim Lebbon displays the sort of cool irony and uncanny mood-making that drives the best
Twilight Zone stories."-
New York Times Book Review
"Tim Lebbon is a master of fantasy and horror, and his visions make for disturbing and compelling reading."-Douglas Clegg, author of
The Queen of Wolves
