ASIN: B0756526L5
Publisher: Joshua Grasso
Pages: 395
Magda, a career cutpurse, has been hired to recover the lost manuscripts of Fabrizio Yatushenko, a once-celebrated poet and dabbler in the occult. Accompanying her is the infamous sorcerer Hildigrim Blackbeard, who seems quite knowledgeable—indeed, a bit too knowledgeable—about the manuscripts in question. With the documents in hand, they flee to the estate of Lady Mary, Countess of Cinquefoil, and her young daughter, Lena, who takes an eager interest in their mysterious guests. Unfortunately, this interest proves her undoing, as she finds a strange book in the crates...a book that writes by itself as she turns the pages, killing off important people with every sentence. Magda learns that this book is none other than The Dark Backward, the oldest book of wizardry and spellcraft. Even worse, it seems to have chosen Lena as its amanuensis, urging her to fill the pages with endless ...
