Strange Cargo by Jeffrey Barlough - Fantasy - SFBookcase.com - Reference of Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels/Authors.

Series: Misc
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0441011608
Pages: 481 pages
Publisher: Ace Books
Price: 14.95
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Strange Cargo by Jeffrey Barlough

Description: Set in a world where the Ice Age never ended and only a narrow coastline of civilization survives,
where Victorian society exists alongside saber-toothed cats, short-faced bears, and woolly
mastodons, "Strange Cargo" is the newest and most darkly engrossing novel yet from the author of
"Dark Sleeper" and "The House in the High Wood."
Something wicked this way comes...
Nantle is the destination for the wealthy Cargo family. A mysterious heir has been named in their
grandfather's will - and they have traveled a long way by sea to find him...
Young Tim Christmas journeys as part of his apprenticeship, seeking the mechanism behind a strange
set of seemingly magical stones...
On her twenty-first birthday, Miss Jane Wastefield is given an odd gift, which she keeps locked up in a
giant chest at all times - a keeping-place from which she receives dire threats. In Nantle, she hopes to
find the one man who can rid her of this evil...
It is in this old cathedral city that their paths will converge. And where they will find themselves at the
mercy of a mighty and a vengeful power...