Both damaged by the consequences of the Aleutian invasion of Earth, Michael and Catherine recognize in each other a capacity for suffering and a need for pain that will draw them into a strange and shocking private world. But there are worlds within worlds in the last days of the alien empire.
Gwyneth Jones lives in Brighton with her husband and son. She won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for BOLD AS LOVE, the first book in this sequence; CASTLES MADE OF SAND is shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award. She is the previous winner of the James Tiptree Memorial Award and two World Fantasy Awards; four of her previous books have been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
