Author Description

The critically acclaimed author of Thunderer, Felix Gilman delivers a novel as suspenseful as it is imaginatively stunning—and featuring one of the most unforgettable heroes in recent memory. Set in a magical landscape where time is meaningless, reality precarious, and countless selves work toward countless possible futures, one man must seek out a city’s dangerous truth—and his own. To some, the Mountain is a myth; to others, a weapon. It is a dark palace leaving its seekers to wander the city below—for no matter how far one walks, the Mountain never draws closer. Cast down from the Mountain, Arjun is lost in its perilous shadows during the last days of the once-great city of Ararat. To save himself, he must first rescue the last of the Low sisters, held prisoner in a deadly and decadent mansion by a captor adrift in time itself. And what awaits Arjun inside is something he could never have imagined....As he struggles to recover the girl, Arjun moves closer to uncovering the city’s darkest secrets—and the revelation of what lies within the Mountain is the darkest and most shocking of them all.