CHARLES DE LINT

A series of bizarre murders is baffling the police. Each death is somehow connected with the city's elusive Gypsy community. The police are searching for a human murderer, but the Romany know better. They have a name for the darkness that hunts them.

Newford: where magic lights dark streets, where myths walk in modern shapes, where humans and older beings must work to keep the whole world turning. At the centre of the entwined lives of all the Newford tales stands a young artist named Jilly Coppercorn, whose paintings capture the hidden beings that dwell in Newford''s shadows. With her tangled hair, her paint-splattered jeans, a smile perpetually on her lips, she''s darted in and out of the Newford tales. Now, at last, we have Jilly''s own story. Behind the painter''s fey charm there''s a dark secret, and a past she''s laboured to forget. That past is coming to claim her now, threatening all she loves. "I''m the onion girl," Jilly Coppercorn says. "Pull back the layers of my life, and you won''t find anything at the core. Just a broken child. A hollow girl." She''s run from the past and the truth for so long. She''s very, very good at running. But life has just forced Jilly to stop.

Janet es una famosa cantante de folk. Al retornar a su aldea natal y a sus amigos de siempre, descubrirá por azar un antiguo libro cuya edición constó de un solo ejemplar. El país pequeño, maravilloso y sorprendente libro dentro de un libro, ofrece a la vez los encantos de la musica y de la magia, pero tambien el horror surgido de la maldad, frecuente tanto en la fantasia como en el mundo moderno. Una verdadera obra maestra.

Forests of the Heart is an enthralling voyage into the seamier side of urban magic. Returning to the familiar environs of Newford, where he sets so many of his modern myths, Charles de Lint introduces some of his most memorable characters yet. The Gentry are ancient spirits of the land, sired in rape and born of woman in the Old Country. When the Irish immigrated to the New World, some of the Gentry came along. Generations later, having no real ties to their new home, they dream dark dreams of wresting the land surrounding Newford from the native manitou spirits. The Gentry''s scheming and plotting draw some of the inhabitants of Newford into a dark and desperate fight against them and a primeval spirit, old as the earth itself but slumbering in la epoca del mito, the myth time. Bettina, a curandera--or healer--is part Mexican and part Indian. She has recently moved to Newford from the deserts of the Southwest for reasons she can''t understand. She lives in Kellygnow, an art colony perched on a hill overlooking Newford. Earning her keep as a model for the various artists who live and work there, she tries to apply her desert-learned skills and knowledge in the cold, forested surroundings. Bettina''s fellow Kellygnowians include Nuala, who seems slightly more spiritual than the average housekeeper; Ellie, a sculptor with a very special commission; and the Recluse, a mysterious figure who winters at Kellygnow in one of the outlying private cottages. Donal, an Irish-born malcontent who dreams of better times, joins them, along with Miki, his musician sister, and Tommy, a Native American accompanied by a few of his apparently innumerable aunts. The looming battle against a seemingly invincible foe draws them together and forces them to depend not only upon their skills and powers, but also on hope, trust, and love.