eBook edition.
Young Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II's adventure comes home. For the first time in the whole quest, the door opens onto a harlequin's own city — Boston, where Blunt was born — and the six young wizards, one year past the secret chambers of London's Orloj, step out of a brick-lined lane behind the Old North Church into streets he thought he knew. He is wrong. Beneath the church waits a crypt that is a door; in a shop that should not exist, Benjamin Franklin keeps a statue of Humility that is never the same twice; gargoyles turn their heads of the embankments; and through the fog moves the oldest enemy of the entire quest — the Dark Goblin — and his creature, a Shadow that grows taller than rooftops by feeding on everything left vague, unnamed, and unfinished, and that starves wherever the six can be exact, honest, and brave. From Paul Revere's statue to the reading rooms of MIT, the trail of fear, doubt, and despair leads at last to the Goblin's final stronghold: the Custom House Tower, high above the harbor, where the chimes of the Orloj of Boston are waiting to ring true again. The Orloj of Boston is a magical tale filled with non-stop action and thrills, as well as timeless wisdom through its unforgettable fables and poems — the great homecoming of the quest's first half.
“..Even older readers will find The Orloj... an imaginative rendering—one that should appeal to anyone who enjoys following a creative quest of young wannabe wizards, intertwined with core life lessons..”
Blueink Review
Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II is an American writer, playwright, and poet. The Orloj series has been crafted through a very intense and intimate introspective dive into the author's own life experiences and wisdom. The quest continues in Volume VI, The Orloj of Tokyo — the first book of the Keeper Cycle; what begins in Prague spans fourteen volumes, concluding with The Orloj of Munich. The complete series is available at www.erasmuscromwellsmith.com.