The follow-up to the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller BELLADONNA, this darkly romantic fantasy continues Anne Bishop’s stunning Landscapes of Ephemera series, set in a world where the only constant is change.
In Ephemera, the bridges may transport you where you truly belong, rather than where you wish to go. When wizards threaten Glorianna Belladonna and Ephemera, her brother Lee sacrifices himself in order to save her - and ends up an Asylum inmate in the city of Vision, far away from all he knows. Danyal, the Shaman who oversees the Asylum, is intrigued by Lee’s ravings about Bridges and Landscapers and wizards. As Lee’s body and mind improve, his words begin to make a terrible kind of sense - giving Danyal and Zhahar a glimpse of a world unlike anything they have seen. then Vision comes under threat from an unknown enemy … Praise for Anne Bishop'sophisticated, mature, and original’ SFRevu on BELLADONNA'compulsively readable’ ROMANtIC tIMES on BELLADONNA'Exotic, original, sensual’ FRESHFICtION on SEBAStIAN