Seeking solace and escape in a cabin in the woods, Theo begins to read his great-uncle´s book and quickly becomes mesmerized. What he finds is an old handwritten book. When he comes across a mysterious old letter from his grandmother´s brother, a man named Eamonn Dowd, and with it the key to a safe deposit box, he decides to investigate. He soon finds himself alone, heartbroken, and plagued by a recurring nightmare and he can´t shake the feeling that these bad things are happening to him for a reason. The third book is a work in progress.Ī bold new fantasy novel complete in one volume.įor Theo Vilmos, a thirty-something lead singer in a marginally successful rock band, life is about to take a real turn for the worse.
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The first two books in the series are The Dragons of Ordinary Farm and The Secrets of Ordinary Farm. Tad Williams and Deborah Beale take readers on an extraordinary adventure in their new YA series The Ordinary Farm Adventures. But when they arrive in deserted Standard Valley, California, they discover that Ordinary Farm is, well, no ordinary farm. They think they´re in for six weeks of cows, sheep, horses, and pigs. Tyler and Lucinda have to spend summer vacation with their ancient uncle Gideon, a farmer. A vast tale of magic, intrigue, terror, sacrifice, and war, there are four volumes in the Shadowmarch series: Shadowmarch, Shadowplay, Shadowrise, and Shadowheart. Exciting, ambitious, intricate, and insightful, Shadowmarch demonstrates that Williams is still America´s best high fantasist. It is upon Southmarch that the armies advance, and on its people that darkness will fall: for a war is coming that will shake the world.Īfter turning his attention to science fiction with the virtual reality saga Otherland, and his fresh take on urban fantasy in the standalone novel The War of the Flowers, Tad returns to high fantasy with the Shadowmarch series. In the south, the Autarch now looks to extend his domain yet further. For hundreds of years it has remained isolated from the affairs of empire but now it is under siege: from both its neighbors without and the more insidious enemies who would destroy it from within.Įven further to the north, within the ancient walls of Qul-na-Qar, the Twilight People gather to hear the blind king Ynnir pronounce the dark fate of human kind.
Each book will be somewhat shorter than Tad´s usual epic length fare, and although part of a series, each may be read as a stand-alone novel.Īt the uppermost edge of the northern kingdoms lies Southmarch Castle. There are three books in Tad´s new fantasy-fueled thriller series: The Dirty Streets of Heaven, Happy Hour in Hell, and Sleeping Late on Judgment Day. And somehow he has to find out who he was before he becomes an unwitting pawn in a game of power that could end in the destruction of the entire human race. His opposite number on the case is arguably the world´s sexiest she-devil, and Bobby has feelings for her that Heaven definitely does not allow. Someone has summoned a truly unpleasant Babylonian demon that´s doing its best to track him down and rip him to pieces. And now he stepped into the middle of something that has both sides very nervous as an unprecedented number of missing souls.Ī new chapter in the war between Heaven and Hell is about to open, and Bobby is right in the middle of it.
Tad´s stories have earned critical acclaim and are immensely popular with both fantasy and science fiction readers worldwide.īobby Dollar would like to know what he was like when he was alive, but too much of his time is spent working as an extremely minor functionary in the Heavenly Host as an afterlife investigator and advocate for the recently departed. Since 1985, he has written more than 20 novels and 3 story collections, and his work has been translated into more than twenty languages. Tad Williams is an international best-selling author of fantasy and science fiction.
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