For centuries they lived amongst us. The frightful and
wondrous, the angelic and bloodthirsty. Living in a reality
just beyond the Veil, humanity’s myths and legends are
caught in a struggle for their very survival—against hunters
far more powerful than they are.
Into this struggle has stepped a New England lawyer who once
wanted to be an actor—a man who both longs for the mortal
woman he was to marry and is desperate to rescue the sister
who’s been taken hostage. Neither hero nor warrior, Oliver
Bascombe now finds himself brandishing a magical sword,
walking in the company of a woman who sometimes appears as a
fox and a man made of pure ice, and dueling with albino
giants and winged killers. For in the world of the
Borderkind—and the realms that exist beyond it—Oliver is
discovering just how vulnerable are humankind’s myths, the
dire consequences of their extinction, and the reason he was
chosen to save them.…