Young Mae and her father longed to create the Great City—the Eternal City—where everyone and everywhere would be happy. Of course, it isn’t easy; Mae stopped thinking in dreams and began to reason more practically. But who could have imagined that this city would be founded from the most ordinary brothel? And it led to nothing good. Those townspeople hanged Mae, her husband (who, as it turns out, isn’t from our world—a creature that came from the Substance), and their son.
But it happened a very long time ago—and so close that now Everville has become a powerful center of Strength, for which the struggle will unfold further on.
And their son—of course, that’s a separate story. He survived and is one of the key characters in the series of books about Art. Here you also have Tesla, the daredevil and seeker of adventures, known from the previous part. Yaff’s son—Tommy Ray, the Death Guy—with his ghosts returns to get back his daughter.
Here is also Harry d’Amour, known from the story “The Last Illusion”—a detective and an eternal fighter against demons, burdened with the weight of knowledge, but still—he isn’t alone in this fight.
This is not just a fantastical-mystical novel, but a story of experiences that are familiar to everyone (even if not quite usual, as here), and also a story of passion that will overcome death and any other obstacles between worlds.