Lost Passages (Far Away Places)

For three centuries, fourteen poets left behind fragments.A word suppressed here. A verse burned there. A margin annotation that was not theirs to publish. The pieces of an incantation scattered across time, guarded by an organization that has been editing history from the shadows — and by something older that has been waiting for the right instrument to collect them.That instrument is Dr. Adrian Lang.A failed Columbia adjunct with a destroyed career and an unpaid rent bill, Adrian is recruited to authenticate a rare manuscript at the Morgan Library. What he finds instead is a ritual — and a choice he doesn't fully understand until it is too late to make differently.Fourteen nights. Fourteen crossings. Fourteen dead poets waiting in their own worlds: Poe, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, Blake, Tennyson, Hunt, Marlowe, Southey, Carroll, Yeats. Each one holding a single word. Each crossing costing Adrian something he will not get back.The mark on his hand spreads with every night. The poetry gets more beautiful. The man carrying it gets harder to see.Lost Passages is the second book in the Far Away Places series — a collection of standalone novels set in the landscapes where fantasy and the Fae are not separate from the world but woven into it.