In the back of an ambulance, River Greer is counting each breath her little sister takes, until the final one: Sage’s body is giving up, ravaged by a mysterious illness. The late-night rush to the ER, however, turns into a surreal nightmare when River is abducted and ferried across the universe, to the fabled Thule: a world beyond worlds, where Victorian mores collide with magic and Arthurian legend, and where . . . capybaras are the pet of choice Meets a duke on a mission… There, his grace Hadrian Landevale of Caid is fighting losing battles of his own: to recover Isolde, his runaway wif...