For two years, Cyrus and Antigon Smith ran a roadside motel with his older brother Daniel. Nothing seems to happen.

Then a strange old man arrives with a tattoo of bones, demanding a certain room. Less than 24 hours later, the old man died.

The motel was burned, and Daniel is missing. Cyrus and Antigon sit in a crowded hall, swearing to the command of explorers who have long served as world secretaries, preserving the powerful effects of lost civilizations, and the jailers to non-abstract criminals who have terrorized the world for thousands of years.

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D. Wilson, author of Leepike Ridge and 100 Cupboards, returns to the fantasy of imaginatively combining the contemporary and the legendary..

I want that book.