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His latest book has been rejected and his screenwriting career has imploded. Given one year to make some form of self-employment work or abandon his creative career entirely, Jordan takes a gamble and opens a tiny tarot parlour across the street from his social housing block in Cornwall.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eThen he discovers a strange box buried in the archives of his university library...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eAmong its contents is a centuries-old, weathered penny broadside describing the trial of “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eSilva the Strange”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e, a bard accused of storytelling, shapeshifting, and illegal divination in a forgotten kingdom called Imperion. The story is incomplete. The verdict is missing. 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