The Way to Babylon

When the stranger came tapping at his lonely croft window, Riven was a man who had lost his world. Shattered by his wife's death in a climbing accident, he found himself alone, unable to climb, unable to write the fantasy novels that had madę him successful. Then, persuaded to accompany the stranger on a routine walk, he suddenly found himself journeying far beyond the Scottish highlands, into a landscape at once achingly familiar, and yet terrifyingly alien. Here, Riven recognised a world of beauty poisoned by tragedy, a world of ghosts and monsters and magic and deceit, a world unlike any other - the world he himself had created...