22 Days — & Counting Down to "The Gathering of the Lost"

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Only 22 days left now to release day for The Gathering of the Lost, The Wall of Night Book Two.

To mark the countdown, I am posting a series of excerpts from the book, and on Thursday 30 I featured an excerpt from the Prologue.

Today it's an extract  from the opening of Part 1, The Festival of Masks:

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from The Gathering of the Lost

(c)  Helen Lowe

 

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