The City of Mist

The echo of the novels of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series resonates in the stories collected here for the first time. A boy decides to become a writer to capture the attentions of an aloof young beauty who has stolen his heart. A labyrinth maker arrives in a plague-ridden Barcelona with plans for building a library impervious to the destruction of time. A strange gentleman tempts Cervantes to write a book like no other, each page of which could prolong the life of the woman he loves. And a brilliant Catalan architect named Antoni Gaudí reluctantly agrees to cross the ocean to New York, a voyage that will determine the fate of an unfinished masterpiece.