To Walk in Shadow: A Tale of Metamor City

By Chris Lester

Lightbringer Agent Clyde Jessup is assigned to escort the fallen god Ba'al on a diplomatic mission to Metamor. While hanging around with the Prince of Shadow is never a Lightbringer's idea of a good time, things rapidly get more complicated when Ba'al agrees to help Majestrix Kyia with a thorny geopolitical problem. Soon Agent Jessup finds himself walking into the dark and deadly Plane of Shadow. What he finds there will test his courage, his resolve, and his sanity. A shadowy tale of fantasy and cosmic horror in the world of Metamor City.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chris Lester
• Release date: Dec 24, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310228254

Chris Lester

Chris Lester has been telling stories for about as long as he can remember, and credits a writing contest in elementary school for introducing him to his muse. Trained as a biologist at the University of California-Santa Cruz, he received his master’s degree in 2004. He worked as a science teacher in California for several years, and is now a microbiologist at a drug research organization in Madison, Wisconsin.As the creator of The Metamor City Podcast (www.metamorcity.com), Chris has twice won the prestigious Parsec Award for excellence in speculative podcast fiction: once in 2009 for Best Long Form Audio Drama and again in 2010 for Best Short Form Audio Drama. In 2015 Chris debuted a new weekly podcast, The Raven and the Writing Desk, where he continues to bring his fiction to the world.

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