Michael McBride is the New York City boy whose flight from the Old-World Unseelie Court leads him far into the wilds of the New World. The only son of a railroad magnate and an Irish beauty, Michael was raised in the posh streets of Gramercy Park, until the secret that lay beneath his family's genteel existence was revealed, sending Michael running for his life. By Union City Railroad, by stagecoach and horseback, he runs from the horror of his mother's deathbed, from ghostly Bann Sidhe and a silver knife. But the Texas frontier in 1876 is as mysterious - and as dangerous - as the nightmare he flees. Magic, Michael McBride will discover, is not something a man can simply outrun. For the West has a magic all its own: as ancient as the land, as vast and powerful, fueled by the mingled dreams of cultures indigenous and immigrant both. With death and the ghost of his past at his back, Michael will run till he can run no more. He will learn to embrace his mixed heritage, the magic of the Old World, the magic of the New - or die, destroyed by them both.
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Michael McBride is the New York City boy whose flight from the Old-World Unseelie Court leads him far into the wilds of the New World. The only son of a railroad magnate and an Irish beauty, Michael was raised in the posh streets of Gramercy Park, until the secret that lay beneath his family's genteel existence was revealed, sending Michael running for his life. By Union City Railroad, by stagecoach and horseback, he runs from the horror of his mother's deathbed, from ghostly Bann Sidhe and a silver knife. But the Texas frontier in 1876 is as mysterious - and as dangerous - as the nightmare he flees. Magic, Michael McBride will discover, is not something a man can simply outrun. For the West has a magic all its own: as ancient as the land, as vast and powerful, fueled by the mingled dreams of cultures indigenous and immigrant both. With death and the ghost of his past at his back, Michael will run till he can run no more. He will learn to embrace his mixed heritage, the magic of the Old World, the magic of the New - or die, destroyed by them both.