Vin and his comrades are still reeling from the carnage that was a result of the battle between them and the brotherhood, a battle that ultimately and very tragically ended in the heroic death of their beloved friend Cathlean. Mere minutes after setting Cathlean's funeral pyre, a hawk soars through the smoke, urging them to follow it into the west where the goddess has just arisen. With only the hawk to guide them across the wild lands of the west they make the journey to greet the goddess

Little is known about Thomas Smith, the author of this 1833 local history of the parish of St Marylebone in London, where, as he states in his preface, he was born and had lived for thirty-six years. His motive for writing the book, aside from 'an inherent affection for the place of his nativity', was an awareness that with the passing of the great Reform Act of 1832, by which Marylebone was designated a borough with its own Member of Parliament, the district was likely to grow rapidly, with both the loss of memories of earlier times, and a swiftly changing built environment. The illustrated...