Three adopted siblings return to their backwater hometown for their father’s funeral, only to find themselves tested in a challenge to identify one of them -- or their own mother -- as his killer.
The Emerald Forest was aflame with color. Autumn had arrived with its usual brightness, turning even this place famed for its many shades of green, to a flurry of red, orange and yellow. The road from New Malia was nearly overgrown by creeping Dalian vines along the ground and winding around the trees. The dangerous vines kept their deep green leaves, but they were tipped with ruby light. In the heart of the forest, a black line of charred earth made the silver trunks of the smoke apple trees shimmer. The dark red fruit, with its silver smoke flare on the peel near the stem hung heavy and ripe all over the trees. The scent of sweet apples was overlaid by the warmth of smoke on the air.
The Emerald Forest was aflame with color. Autumn had arrived with its usual brightness, turning even this place famed for its many shades of green, to a flurry of red, orange and yellow. The road from New Malia was nearly overgrown by creeping Dalian vines along the ground and winding around the trees. The dangerous vines kept their deep green leaves, but they were tipped with ruby light. In the heart of the forest, a black line of charred earth made the silver trunks of the smoke apple trees shimmer. The dark red fruit, with its silver smoke flare on the peel near the stem hung heavy and ripe all over the trees. The scent of sweet apples was overlaid by the warmth of smoke on the air.
When the newest member of Eric Peterkin’s London club is found stabbed to death, Eric throws himself into a quest for the truth: missing nurses, morphine addiction, shell shock. The Great War is over, but the memories remain...
Thoster Chatwyn knows every story there is to tell in all of Elysia. But what if the greatest story he could ever tell was that of his own past and the promise of his future?
