Stephen Lawhead
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Stephen Lawhead is an internationally acclaimed author of mythic history and imaginative fiction. His works include Byzantium and the series The Pendragon Cycle, The Celtic Crusades, and The Song of Albion, and King Raven. He lives in the United Kingdom.
Please visit www.stephenlawhead.com |
| THE SKIN MAP Book 1 of the BRIGHT EMPIRES series Thomas Nelson, Fall 2010 Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy Agent: Matt Bialer Foreign Sales |
| On a seemingly ordinary day in contemporary London, Kit Livingstone encounters a man who introduces himself as Kit’s great-grandfather Cosimo—who has traveled in time to reach him. Before he realizes what’s happening, Kit is hurtled across time and space, back to a slightly altered 17th-century London, where Cosimo recruits him for a dangerous quest: recovering the elusive Skin Map, a coded map of the pathways that connect our world to ancient times and parallel universes.
Unbeknownst to the map’s seekers, the Skin Map is not the prize at the end of the race, but merely the first goal of a vast and marvelous quest to regain Paradise. This time-traveling scavenger hunt spans different historical settings, including London in the 21st and 17th centuries, the Austrian Empire during the Magick Court of Emperor Rudolf II, China of the Qing Dynasty, and 18th-century Egypt. |
