This book was originally published under the title "Legends Walking."
There are myths walking in the shadows among us -- creatures of legend who have shared our world since the dawn of time. Shapeshifters, satyrs, merfolk, unicorns -- ruled by the strong hand of Arthur the King -- they have sworn to keep their existences hidden from a human race prone to kill what it doesn't understand. These are the athanor -- immortal but not invincible -- and many dream of the day they can live openly.
In the Nigerian city of Monamona, a scourge once eradicated has resurfaced -- a terrible disease reintroduced into the world by a fanatic who may or may not be athanor: Shopona, the onetime God of Smallpox. There are those who oppose him, and they will need the help of the shapeshifter Changer -- perhaps the Earth's oldest being -- to prevail.
But Changer has problems of his own. His coyote daughter Shahrazad is testing the limits of her abilities against new realities in the human world. Nor can Arthur give the African problem his full attention. His people are revolting against centuries of constraint -- a revolt that may, in the long run, be more dangerous for the athanor than the release of smallpox ever could be. When an old rival reappears, rising powers must be controlled or the athanor's secret will be doomed.
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This book was originally published under the title "Legends Walking."
There are myths walking in the shadows among us -- creatures of legend who have shared our world since the dawn of time. Shapeshifters, satyrs, merfolk, unicorns -- ruled by the strong hand of Arthur the King -- they have sworn to keep their existences hidden from a human race prone to kill what it doesn't understand. These are the athanor -- immortal but not invincible -- and many dream of the day they can live openly.
In the Nigerian city of Monamona, a scourge once eradicated has resurfaced -- a terrible disease reintroduced into the world by a fanatic who may or may not be athanor: Shopona, the onetime God of Smallpox. There are those who oppose him, and they will need the help of the shapeshifter Changer -- perhaps the Earth's oldest being -- to prevail.
But Changer has problems of his own. His coyote daughter Shahrazad is testing the limits of her abilities against new realities in the human world. Nor can Arthur give the African problem his full attention. His people are revolting against centuries of constraint -- a revolt that may, in the long run, be more dangerous for the athanor than the release of smallpox ever could be. When an old rival reappears, rising powers must be controlled or the athanor's secret will be doomed.