'When reality is written on skin, only blood will do as ink' -- the astonishing sequel to his groundbreaking literary fantasy Vellum It's twenty years since the Evenfall swept across the Vellum and the bitmites took reality apart, twenty years since Phreedom Messenger disappeared into the wilderness and Seamus Finnan was imprisoned in his own past. Twenty years of chaos but the Dukes, the remnants of the Covenant, still cling to power in their enclaves of order in the bitmite-devastated wilderness . . . in their Havens in the Hinter. Hal Duncan's sequel to highly-acclaimed Vellum is a mind-blowing work of fantasy that will continue to redefine the genre.