New alternate history fantasy series created by New York Times
best-selling author Kevin J. Anderson and Sarah A. Hoyt.
Arcane America
A new world. New magic. New history.
After Halley's Comet was destroyed in a magical battle in 1759, the
backlash separated the entire New World from the Old in an event known
as The Sundering. Now isolated from the rest of the globe, America has
become a very different place, where magic works and history has been
changed forever.
It is 1803 - a new 1803. Young Meriwether Lewis, footloose and
intrigued, goes to hear a lecture in St. Louis by the venerated old
wizard Benjamin Franklin. Franklin's talk is disrupted by the attack of
a winged fire-breathing beast, much like legends from Lewis' own Welsh
heritage. In the aftermath, Franklin tells the young man that he knows
of a great, growing evil that lurks in the uncharted Arcane Territories
west of the Mississippi.
Using his own vast fortune, Franklin commissions Lewis and his own
talented partner, William Clark, to embark on a remarkable voyage of
exploration, to meet and document the indigenous tribes, to find a route
all the way to the Pacific Ocean - and perhaps beyond the magical veil
to Europe again - and to stop the growing evil that is filling the
American West. For while the Sundering separated the rest of the world
and granted the original colonists unexpected magical gifts, sorcery
inspired by native legends has also been ignited. And the Arcane
Territories may hold unparalleled dangers for the expedition, both
natural and magical.
Accompanied by the brilliant shape-shifting sorceress Sacajawea, Lewis
and Clark set off on an unparalleled adventure across a landscape that
no European has ever seen.
