Book description
New York jeweller Garet James has her fair share of problems: money,
an elderly father, a struggling business. One day she comes across an
antiques shop she'd never noticed before. The owner possesses an old
silver box that's been sealed shut. Would she help an old man and open
it, perhaps? She does...and that night strange things begin to happen.
It's as if her world - our world - has shifted slightly, revealing
another, parallel place that co-exists without our knowledge: the
world of the Fey...
Garet learns that one of her ancestors was 'the Watchtower': an
immortal chosen to stand guard over the human and the fey worlds - a
role that she has, it seems, inherited from her mother. But the
equilibrium between these two existences is under threat. The
16th-century magician and necromancer Dr John Dee has returned, the
box has been opened and the demons of Despair and Discord released. In
a race against time and impending apocalypse, it is Garet who must
find Dee...and close the box.
LEE CARROLL is a pseudonym for the writing partnership of
award-winning novelist Carol Goodman and her poet husband, Lee
Slonimsky. They live on the north shore of Long Island, New York.
