The Shadow Men
From Beacon Hill to Southie, historic Boston is a town of vibrant
neighborhoods knit into a seamless whole. But as Jim Banks and Trix
Newcomb learn in a terrifying instant, it is also a city divided — split
into three separate versions of itself by a mad magician once tasked
with its protection.
Jim is happily married to Jenny,
with whom he has a young daughter, Holly. Trix is Jenny’s best friend,
practically a member of the family — although she has secretly been in
love with Jenny for years. Then Jenny and Holly inexplicably
disappear — and leave behind a Boston in which they never existed. Only
Jim and Trix remember them. Only Jim and Trix can bring them back.
With the help of Boston’s Oracle, an elderly woman with magical powers, Jim
and Trix travel between the fractured cities, for that is where Jenny
and Holly have gone. But more is at stake than one family’s happiness.
If Jim and Trix should fail, the spell holding the separate Bostons
apart will fail too, and the cities will reintegrate in a cataclysmic
implosion. Someone, it seems, wants just that. Someone with deadly
shadow men at their disposal.
Tim Lebbon
Tim Lebbon (born 1969) is a horror and dark fantasy writer, and a judge at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention.
Tim Lebbon was born in London. His short story "Reconstructing Amy" won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 2001 and his novel Dusk won the 2007 August Derleth Award from the British Fantasy Society for best novel of the year. His novelisation of the movie 30 Days of Night became a New York Times bestseller and won a Scribe Award in 2008. Tim lived in Devon until he was eight and then in Newport until the age of 26. He now lives in Goytre, Monmouthshire with his wife and two children.
Hidden Cities
Hidden Cities consists of four books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.