A riveting, hypnotic look at the power of art by multiple award winner Elizabeth Hand. Seventeen-year-old Meredith lives for her art - but after her girlfriend Lindsey commits suicide, even that can't save her. Desperate, Mer abandons art school and makes her way home to Washington, D.C., intending to kill herself. A chance street encounter leads her to a lockhouse by the river, which leads her to craft something remarkable - a wall painting that is a doorway through art and time. Through it comes the young Arthur Rimbaud, the "child poet," who is equally desperate. The two artists - one visual, one verbal - change each other's lives. The brilliant Elizabeth Hand, author of Generation Loss, Waking the Moon, and the World Fantasy Award-winning Illyria, has crafted a story that will burn itself into readers' minds.