"Look inside this world and find wonder." --KATE BERNHEIMER, editor
of My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me and author of The
Girl Who Wouldn't Brush Her Hair Lily leads a serene life in
Arcadia until the forces of Megalopolis invade. Rescued from
slavery by a prince of Megalopolis, Lily is sent to retrieve a very
important key. Aided by her friends, her dog Rex, and even Death
herself, Lily's adventures take her from the Moons to the Bottom of
the Sea, and finally back to Megalopolis, where she faces the
decision of her life. Will she choose True Love and relinquish the
key to those in Power or will she risk everything for who she is
and return the key to Arcadia? Narrated by Lily's daughter, Sophia
the Wise, this is a story about a girl who learns to live by her
own light and--no matter how reluctantly--become the queen her
people need. Full of Arcadian legends, it is also a fairy tale
within a fairy tale about a troubled world not unlike our own, as
well as a beautifully illustrated sequel to Snotty Saves the Day,
which critics and booksellers hailed as "Lewis Carroll with
footnotes by Jonathan Swift," while comparing it to authors whose
work can be savored by readers of all ages: Susanna Clark, C.S.
Lewis, George Orwell, and L. Frank Baum. The History of Arcadia
series tells the story of a world that was literally formed by a
story, by one person discovering and claiming who she really is
...and of the subsequent events that led first to a deceptively
happy world, then to an inevitably tragic outcome, and finally to a
slow rebuilding of the world on foundations more deeply and
thoughtfully laid. Each book includes bonus Arcadian legends and
fairy tales, and relates how the manuscript crossed the barriers
between Arcadia and our own world to arrive at Exterminating Angel
Press. The first two novels in the series are Snotty Saves the Day
and Lily the Silent. Tod Davies lives with her husband and her two
dogs at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, in Boulder, Colorado and
in the alpine valley of Colestin, Oregon, where she discovered
Snotty Saves the Day, the first Arcadian manuscript. Illustrator
Mike Madrid is the author of Vixens, Vamps & Vipers: Lost
Villainesses of Golden Age Comics; Divas, Dames & Daredevils:
Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics, and The Supergirls: Fashion,
Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines.
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