Some decades ago, Tanith Lee was asked to write a novel with a steampunk ambience, and this book is the result of her writing the first three chapters. Unfortunately, the book was never finished. However, the chapters she did write form a neat novella, and for this reason her husband, John Kaiine, has asked Immanion Press to publish it. Its something Tanith fans will love and deserves to see the light of day, if only because we wont be getting any new stories from Tanith now. Twenty years ago, something horrible happened something so unspeakable that it never is spoken of. But it filled the sky with strangeness and peril, and the landscape with bleak mutated danger. The idea of God was banished and forbidden. To pray became a hanging offence. In the house on the Plain, the nameless young woman exists with her Uncles family, to which she was brought at the age of six, an orphaned refugee from some disaster she does not remember. For her there is no kindness in the grim house either. She is despised, patronised and mistreated by both her relatives and their servants. Her days are drab and meaningless. But an evening comes when her Aunt and Cousinesses are late returning from the town. Once the sun has set no one who can avoid it is out on the Plain, for after dark appalling creatures scavenge and hunt there. Then the carriage is sighted running at full stretch and wreathed in flames. What emerges from that fire, the familys sinister rescuer, has the appearance of an old...

Binding: Paperback;138 pages; Publisher: Immanion Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 305.07 g; Dimensions: N/A

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