The Bone HouseKit Livingstone met his great-grandfather Cosimo in a rainy alley in London where he discovered the truth about alternate realities. Now he’s on the run—and on a quest—trying to understand the impossible mission he inherited from Cosimo: to restore a map that charts the hidden dimensions of the multiverse. Survival depends on staying one step ahead of the savage Burley Men. The key is the Skin Map—but where it leads and what it means, Kit has no idea. The pieces have been scattered throughout this universe and beyond. Mina, from her outpost in seventeenth-century Prague, is quickly gaining both the experience and the means to succeed in the quest. Yet so are those with evil intent who, from the shadows, are manipulating great minds of history for their own malign purposes. Those who know how to use the ley lines have left their own world behind to travel across time and space—down avenues of Egyptian sphinxes, to an Etruscan tufa tomb, into a Bohemian coffee shop, and across a Stone Age landscape where universes collide—in this, the second quest to unlock the mystery of The Bone House. The Bright Empires series—from acclaimed author Stephen R. Lawhead—is a unique blend of epic treasure hunt, ancient history, alternate realities, cutting-edge physics, philosophy, and mystery. The result is a page-turning, adventure like no other. |
Contents
In Which a Guest Is Honoured | |
In Which the Pregnant Question Is Asked | |
In Which December Proves the Cruellest Month | |
In Which the Infant Science of Archaeology Is Radically Advanced | |
The Language of Angels | |
In Which the Scholarly Inquiry Bears Strange Fruit | |
In Which Blood Tells | |
In Which Patience and Practice Pay | |
In Which a Destiny Is Determined | |
In Which the Past Catches | |
In Which the Question of What to Do Is Asked and AnsweredTwice | |
Auspicious Meetings | |
In Which the Aid of a Good Doctor Is Sought | |
In Which Full Disclosure Takes a Drubbing | |
In Which an Identity Is Mistaken | |
In Which Wilhelmina Learns the Ropes | |
In Which Sheer BloodyMinded Persistence Is Rewarded | |
In Which an Impossible Birth Is Celebrated | |
In Which the Truth Cannot Be Ignored | |
Coming Forth by | |
In Which an Apprenticeship Is Begun | |
In Which Ruffled Feathers Are Smoothed | |
In Which a Burden Shared Is a Burden Halved | |
In Which a Visit to Prague Is Wangled | |
In Which a ThreeCup Problem Is Expounded | |
In Which a Little Light Is Shed | |
A House Made All of Bone | |
In Which Feeling Good and Strong Is Not Enough | |
In Which a Most Peculiar Predicament Arises | |
In Which Kit Embraces the Stone | |
In Which a Sensible Course of Action Is Proposed | |
In Which Confidences Are Frankly Shared | |
In Which Formal Introductions Are Made | |
In Which the Future Is a Dream | |
In Which a Remedy Is Pursued | |
Epilogue | |
Quantum Physics and Me by Stephen Lawhead Acknowledgements | |