In a world torn asunder, hope refuses to die.
`If I am to build your dream, you must send me into it. Even then, without a mind to aid me, your dream may not last. Stay here, in Byelovodye. Help maintain your dream ...'
Once a Soviet rocket scientist, Elena Irinovna now cleans office buildings — until she crosses paths with Ilya Muromyets. An eight-hundred-year-old remnant of Russia's glorious and fabled past, Ilya is now a heroin addict dreaming of a death that will never come. The two are brought together by a strange artefact Elena has found, which offers a glimpse into another dimension — creating a dangerous breach in a world Elena had thought she knew ...
Ilya, however, is no stranger to the unexplained, having been hired by a mysterious organization to track down this precious find. But nothing prepared him for what it offers — or for meeting a woman like Elena. Fighting their own inner demons, as well as those from across the breach, Ilya and Elena embark on a harrowing trip between nations and worlds. And for the first time the man of myth and the woman of science discover that they have a dream to defend — and even to die for ...
`Offers rousing adventure and memorable characters ... Liz Williams truly fulfils her earlier promise. Don't let this one pass you by.
LOCUS
`Williams does a wonderful job of describing the character of a place through the people who inhabit it and through the manifestations of their dreams'
PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY
A fascinating and layered tale ... draws on the incredibly rich heroic traditions of Central Asian myth'
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