Emanuel is a young refugee escaping the turmoil of conflict in his own country. Winter is a reclusive writer with painful secrets to guard. Both, for very different reasons, are outsiders in the world they inhabit. It is Winter who instigates their journey to the Antbear Cabin; realm of the secretive Antbear, denizen of the underground, who roams the nocturnal world between twilight and dawn. Elana Bregin is a fiction writer. Her books include Survival Training for Lonely Hearts, Shiva's Dance and The Slayer of Shadows.