The first book of a new fantasy series by the winner of season VII of the “New Children’s Book” literary contest, Mila Knox.
Transylvania… The most terrifying and mysterious place on earth, where shapeshifters, strigoi, sorcerers… and those who hunt them live. And also, in Transylvania near the small town of Izvor, behind ancient barrows where the Dacians buried their dead, theodor Liviani lives peacefully. When his life collapses, he decides to fight—no matter what!—and enters a dangerous game that… invites none other than Death itself.
Somewhere from the hill came a quiet wailing, as if someone’s soul was calling the distant spring—“MACABRE” by Mila Knox.
Teodor lives in the forest; his parents are changeling foxes. He is almost sixteen, he is unsociable, doesn’t remember his childhood, and hates townspeople. But one day trouble comes into Teo’s house, and the young man’s shadow takes the shape of a door, while his parents disappear without a trace. Teo is forced to become a participant in the Macabre—a game with Death—in order to try to bring his family back. But to outplay Death, he must learn to trust people—living and… not quite. And, of course, he must remember the most important thing: “When you are alive, any door is open to you.”