Screenwriter and noted film critic C. Robert Cargill continues the story started in his acclaimed debut Dreams and Shadows within this strong and brilliantly crafted tale including fairies and humans, magic and monsters-a vibrant phantasmagoria that combines the imaginative wonders of Neil Gaiman, the visual inventiveness of Guillermo Del Toro, as well as the shocking miasma of William S. Burroughs.

Six months possess passed because the wizard Colby lost his closest friend to an army of fairies from your Limestone about Queen from the Dark Points: A Novel Kingdom, a world of mystery and darkness beyond our very own. However in vanquishing these animals and banning them from Austin, Colby sacrificed the anonymity that secured him. Now, term of his deeds has spread, and powerful enemies from the past-including one Colby considered a friend-have resurfaced to specific their revenge.

As darkness gathers around the town, Colby sifts through his remembrances desperate to find answers that might save him. As time passes working out, and few of his older allies and enemies ready to help, he’s forced to turn for help to forces actually darker than those he once battled.

Following such masters as Lev Grossman, Erin Morgenstern, Richard Kadrey, and Kim Harrison, C. Robert Cargill requires us deeper into a fantastic universe of darkness and question, despair and hope to reveal the magic and monsters all around us . and inside us.