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For Thaniel Steepleton, an unexpected posting to Tokyo can’t come at a better moment. The London fog has made him ill and doctor’s orders are to get out. His brief is strange: the staff at the British Legation have been seeing ghosts, and his first task is to find out what’s going on. But staying with his closest friend, Keita Mori, in Yokohama, Thaniel starts to experience ghostly happenings himself. For reasons he won’t say, Mori is frightened. Then he vanishes.

Leserinnen und Leser werden in Die verlorene Zukunft von Pepperharrow ins Japan der 1880er Jahre entführt, wo der Nationalismus auf dem Vormarsch ist und Geister durch die Straßen streifen. Fünf Jahre, nachdem sich Thaniel Steepleton und Keita Mori in London kennengelernt haben, reisen sie, ein unscheinbarer Übersetzer, und ein Uhrmacher, der sich an die Zukunft erinnert, nach Japan, denn in Tokio gehen seltsame Dinge vor sich. Während Krieg mit Russland droht, tritt das Personal der britischen Gesandtschaft in den Streik, weil in ihrem Gebäude Geister ihr Unwesen treiben.

With a ragged peace in place, demons burn farmlands, violent Reivers roam the wilds and plague has spread beyond the Black Meadows. The country is on its knees. In a society that fears and shuns him, Aranok is the first magically-skilled draoidh to be named King's Envoy. Now, charged with restoring an exiled foreign queen to her throne, he leads a group of strangers across the ravaged country. But at every step, a new mystery complicates their mission.

Wilkes is alone, struggling to survive on the island once known as Great Britain, 36 years after the zombie apocalypse devastated the world. As the young woman makes her way along the ruined landscape, she stumbles across a backpack filled with journals written by a man she will never meet, but who will alter the course of her life nonetheless. Through these yellowed pages, Wilkes relives the worst that life had to offer at the very end of humanity's reign.