A Multitude of Dreams
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3.7 • 6 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
“Dripping with bloody opulence, A Multitude of Dreams creeps up on you like a sly shadow. I couldn’t guess at the horrors until it was too late to look away! I loved this book.” —Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrow
The bloody plague is finally past, but what fresh horror lies in its wake?
Princess Imogen of Goslind has lived a sheltered life for three years at the boarded-up castle—she and the rest of its inhabitants safe from the bloody mori roja plague that’s ravaged the kingdom. But Princess Imogen has a secret, and as King Stuart descends further into madness, it’s at great risk of being revealed. Rations dwindle each day, and unhappy murmurings threaten to crack the facade of the years-long charade being played within the castle walls.
Nico Mott once enjoyed a comfortable life of status, but the plague took everyone and everything from him. If not for the generosity of a nearby lord, Nico may not have survived the mori roja’s aftermath. But does owing Lord Crane his life mean he owes him his silence?
When Lord Crane sends Nico to search for more plague survivors in the castle, Nico collides with a princess who wants to break out. They will each have to navigate the web of lies they’ve woven if they’re going to survive the nightmares ahead.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rutherford (The Poison Season) puts a slow-burning, tension-filled undead spin on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" in this fantasy reimagining. Four years earlier, when a plague outbreak known as the mori roja ravaged the kingdom of Goslind, erratic King Stuart imprisoned hundreds of nobles and servants in his castle, known as Eldridge Hall. There, in dwindling luxury, he continues to pretend that the plague doesn't exist. Among those trapped is Jewish 17-year-old Seraphina, who was taken from her family and now impersonates the real Princess Imogen, who died of the plague. Not too far from the castle, butcher's son Nico serves a charismatic lord, who tasks Nico with investigating the outwardly abandoned Eldridge Hall for survivors. Along the way, Nico encounters plague victims on their way to Eldridge Hall, who wander the kingdom as undead creatures yearning for blood. In his effort to warn whoever might be there of the danger beyond the castle walls, Nico meets Seraphina, and the two are pulled into the delusions of "the mad king." Rutherford blends romance, assumed and mistaken identities, and an atmosphere brimming with impending dread to develop a gothically sinister apocalyptic read. Protagonists cue as white. Ages 13–up.
