From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Map of Time" and "The Map of the Sky," the final installment in the award-winning trilogy that "The Washington Post "called "a big, genre-bending delight."
When the person he loves most dies in tragic circumstances, the mysterious protagonist [...]

1898. New York socialite Emma Harlow agrees to marry well-to-do Montgomery Gilmore, but only if he first accepts her audacious challenge: to reproduce the Martian invasion featured in H. G. Wells s popular novel The War of the Worlds. Meanwhile in London, Wells himself is unexpectedly made privy to [...]