February Faces: The Travels of Latham Cole II

The Weyrd has chased Latham Cole for ages. Weeks before, it nearly killed him outside a town called Achilles Roost, taking the form of prismatic rain. He came out the other side by the skin of his teeth, somehow still one step ahead.And now it has finally caught him.Latham is close to the end. Closer than he has ever been. On the horizon, he finally espies his destination—Swansong City. At its peak is the Eleven-Eleven Palace, home to the tyrant known as The Man of Many Names. And Latham has a bullet for each of them.But before he can reach the city, he is miraculously transported to another land. The Weyrd has opened up a fault line between realms, opening a brief window into faraway places. One of them leads to the small town of Canburry, a primitive burg full of simple folk—folk who are suffering and dying from a ghastly parasite no one can explain.As Latham explores these realms for a way to Swansong City, he begins to discover the gruesome origins of the disease—and how far it has truly spread. With the aid of Ezzren Vall’duur, Canburry’s honored vanguard, and a witch imprisoned in a cave, Latham races to find a cure for the sickness before more worlds suffer the same unimaginable fate. And time is running out.As the window between worlds grows shorter and Ezzren’s people grow sicker, they must contend with the possibility that a cure cannot be found—and a more devastating remedy must be delivered to save thousands of innocent lives.The Weyrd is catching.

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