Step through the door to lost pages and escape a life you never wanted.

On her tenth birthday, Aydee runs away from home and from her neglectful parents. At first, surviving alone on the streets is harsh, but a series of frightening, bewildering encounters with strange primordial creatures leads her to a bookshop called Lost Pages, where she steps into a fantastic, sometimes dangerous, but exciting life. Aydee grows up at the reality-hopping Lost Pages, which seems to attract a clientele that is both eccentric and desperate. She is repeatedly drawn into an eternal war between enigmatic gods and monsters, until the day she is confronted by her worst nightmare: herself.

Claude Lalumière (claudepages.info) is the author of three previous books: Objects of Worship (CZP 2009), The Door to Lost Pages (CZP 2011), and Nocturnes and Other Nocturnes (Infinity Plus 2013). He has edited or co-edited fourteen anthologies in various genres, including Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic (Vehicule Press 2003), Lust for Life: Tales of Sex & Love (Vehicule Press 2006), Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories (Tyche 2013), and The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir (Exile Editions 2015). Originally from Montreal, where he was a bookseller in the 1990s, he’s also lived in Québec City, Portland, Austin, and Vancouver. He’s currently headquartered in Ottawa.

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