Shade does very bad things, and she does them very well. She also doesn't exist. Trained as a thief, cat burglar, and master assassin, she's a shade, a ghost. A chameleon that changes her face to suit her environment, no one who's ever seen Shade is alive to talk about it, and even Shade doesn't know her true identity. When the man who raised them mysteriously disappears during a job, Shade and her brother are forced to work together against what appears to be the professional genocide of industry specialists. And Shade and Bas have already been targeted. As they continue to piece together a puzzle that spans continents and decades, they cross paths with another assassin with a reputation as dark as Shade's, who seems to be manipulating the real game that none of them knew they were playing. But Shade has two tricks up her sleeves.

C. S. Lewis: Views From Wake Forest is a collection of sixteen insightful essays that will delight both Inklings scholars and C. S. Lewis readers of all ages and opinions. Walter Hooper, for example, the man most responsible for preserving, publishing, and promoting Lewis' many works after Lewis' death in 1963, shares stories from his work with Lewis, Owen Barfield, Lady Collins, and other friends of Lewis in his essay 'Editing C. S. Lewis, ' an inspiring tale as well as a landmark event in Lewis scholarship. James Como, author of Why I Believe in Narnia and a Keynote Speaker at the international conference from which these essays were collected, reveals the neglected C. S. Lewis, the cultural critic and public philosopher whose insights and thinking give Lewis' more popular novels and apologetic works their weight and value. Fourteen more Lewis scholars explore Lewis' invaluable social criticism, his philosophical and theological insights, his Narnia books and Ransom Trilogy, as well as his medieval imagination and mythological artistry. For the serious student of C. S. Lewis as well as for anyone wanting to understand the Narnian novelist and Christian genius more profoundly, C. S. Lewis: Views From Wake Forest is a book that will open up new dimensions and ways of appreciating his multi-faceted brilliance.