There is a place between life and death known as Twilight.
It's there that the Shadowman waits and when a human life
flickers out, it is the Shadowman who ferries us from one
world to the next. Forbidden entrance to our world and the
other, all he can do is watch and wait. Until the night
love beckons him and recklessly, unlawfully, he crosses
over and claims his love. The result of his forbidden act
is a girl child, but there is a price to pay for the
Shadowman's momentary weakness. A terrible price and one
that all humanity will suffer.
Orphaned at an early age, Talia O'Brien never knew her
mother. She knew nothing of her father until a near-death
experience where she met him face-to-face. Talia is Death's
daughter.
Adam Thorne founded the Segue Institute in the hope he
could find a way to kill his brother, Jacob, after Jacob's
transformation into a wraith. He learns of Talia after
reading a paper she has published, one that mentions the
Shadowman. Adam sets out to find Talia, who is being hunted
by wraiths and is currently in hiding. Adam rescues her and
brings her to Segue; he doesn't know who exactly she is,
but he knows there is something different about her. It's
not long before he realizes that it's no random thing the
wraiths are after Talia; she may well hold the fate of the
human world in her hands.
An interesting debut novel with a lot of the feel of a
fairy tale. I enjoyed this twist on death with its tortured
Shadowman and the soul sucking wraiths preying on
unsuspecting humanity.
Most people have to die to meed Shadowman. He lives in
Twilight, the ethereal dark forst of fantasy connecting this
life and the hereafter, and it'e here he waits to escort the
dead to what lies beyond. But when he enters the mortal
world and finds Kathleen, he breaches the realms, unleashing
a dark terror.
In a weak film clinging to the corners of the room: a
smudge of black spit on the world, to grow and thrive, a
horror to match her miracle.
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