"For the Stone was from space - but perhaps not our space; it came from the future - but perhaps not our future; and within the hollowed asteroid was Thistledown. The remains of a vanished civilization. A human - English, Russian, and Chinese-speaking - civilization. Seven vast chambers containing forests, lakes, rivers, hanging cities...
"And museums describing the Death; the catastrophic war that was about to occur; the horror and the long winter that would follow. But while scientists and politicians bickered about how to use the information to stop the Death, the Stone yielded a secret that made even Earth's survival pale into insignificance..."
"But there are hauntings on the city streets, and strange bodies in a crumbling hotel, a Song of Power in the air, and an ancient creature summoning him from beneath the waters of a loch in Scotland.
"Michael had returned to California at last. But the Sidhe are following him home...."
