S. Michael Russel to the dark heart of

to the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside themselves

and the Dalmatians have such beautiful coats

who seems to have life sorted - he's kind

Pazel the tarboy gifted and cursed by his mother's spell and a small band of Ixchel

A series of suicides

S. Michael Russel to the dark heart ofOne book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace and desire. A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. THE BOOK: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer