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A practical farmer discovers a crossroads connecting four different realities. An elderly woman is granted forty-eight hours of youth, beauty and wishes. A circus performer learns how to switch bodies. A gold miner confronts a seventy-five-foot island god. New York landmarks mysteriously vanish. And a powerless drifter discovers he can heal—or kill—with a glance. Across these fantasy short stories, wishes, powers, supernatural encounters, alternate realities and impossible changes create adventure, humor, danger, wonder and unexpected consequences.

Fanner Marston has survived what killed every other man in his party. Driven by greed, power and obsession, he crosses a brutal landscape toward the legendary city of Parva, where the Great Secret of the Universe is said to wait. Marston wants absolute power. He has paid for it in blood, thirst and endurance. But reaching the secret is only the beginning—because the truth at the end of his quest may overturn everything he believed the prize would give him. Forty men began the journey. One man reaches the end. And the greatest secret in existence has one more surprise waiting for him.

Circus performer Little Tom Little has spent his life looking up at bigger men—especially Hermann Schmidt, the commanding ring master who seems to possess everything Tom wants. Then a dying mystic leaves Tom the secret of switching bodies. Suddenly Tom can trade his small frame for Schmidt’s powerful one. But becoming another man means inheriting his dangers and his enemies—and Tom is about to learn that getting what you want can be far more dangerous than wanting it. One soul. Multiple bodies. One impossible secret. And one wish that may leave Tom wishing he had stayed exactly who he was.