When Ron runs away, he ends up in Bordertown, a grim city that lies between the real world and the world of faerie, a place where elf and human gangs stalk the streets side by side, and where magic works better than technology. If the city doesn't kill him, it just may teach him what it is to be hum
Elsewhere
β Scribed by Koontz, Dean Ray
- Book ID
- 100613377
- Publisher
- Aus CoPubs; HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 537 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Sydney, N.S.W.
- ISBN
- 1460710541
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β¦ Synopsis
Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach. Itβs a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep. Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous objectβsomething he calls βthe key to everythingββand tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. But after a visit from a group of ominous men, Jeffy and Amity find themselves accidentally activating the key and discovering an extraordinary truth. The device allows them to jump between parallel planes at once familiar and bizarre, wondrous and terrifying. And Jeffy and Amity canβt help but wonder, could Michelle be just a click away? Jeffy and Amity arenβt the only ones interested in the device. A man with a dark purpose is in pursuit, determined to use its grand potential for profound evil. Unless Amity and Jeffy can outwit him, the place they call home may never be safe again.
β¦ Subjects
Time travel -- Fiction
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