"You rattle the darkness where you walk, Jax."

Enter Shadowbridge, a world of linked spiraling spans of bridges on which all impossibilities can happen. Ghosts parade, inscrutable gods cast riddles, and dangerous magic is unleashed.

Monstrous creatures drain the lives of children and for a price, you can sample their fleeting quintessence--provided the creatures don't sample you instead.

Traveling these spans is a brilliant, secretive shadow-puppeteer called Jax, who knows all the stories of love, of war, of the gods, and even of Death and his lover.

But Jax has more than a few secrets, too--not the least of which is his true identity: that of Leodora, daughter of the greatest storyteller who ever played the spans, and the woman known as the Red Witch.

In LORD TOPHET, the compelling sequel, the adventure continues as Leodora discovers the secrets of the inverted world, Pons Asinorum, and learns the true story of her parents' fate, even as she falls prey to the hidden creature that calls himself Lord Tophet, God of Chaos.

LORD TOPHET
by Gregory Frost
Del Rey Books $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-49759-8

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"Beautifully written and realized."
--Jeffrey Ford, author of THE EMPIRE OF ICE CREAM

SHADOWBRIDGE
by Gregory Frost
Del Rey Books $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-49758-1

"One of the best reads of the year."
   
  —Jay Tomio, Fantasy Bookspot

"A master class on storytelling and myth-making by a gifted writer working at the top of his game."
—SciFi Weekly

"The tales of Soter and Tophet are two of the most powerful stories in the duology because of the shocking answers they provide."
—Fantasy Book Critic

"Frost has set up a compelling world, brimming with energy and memorable characters."
    
—Kathleen Ann Goonan, Washington Post Book World

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