The story of a Isabelle Copley who paints creatures which not only look as though they could step from the canvas into life, but actually do. And once they do they have a will of their own.

Two lives. Two souls. One miracle. Max Trader is a luthier, a maker of guitars. Johnny Devlin is chronically unemployed. Max is solitary, quiet, responsible. Johnny is a lady-killer, a drunk, a charming loser. When they inexplicably wake up in each other's bodies, Johnny gleefully moves into Max's comfortable and stable existence, leaving Max to pick up the pieces of a life he had no part in breaking. Penniless, friendless, homeless, Max begins...

A new novel set in the mystical and magical city of Newford brings to life the hidden story of Jilly Coppercorn, a young artist whose magical paintings capture the hidden beings that live in the city's shadows and whose fey charm hides a dark secret about her past that could destroy everything and everyone she loves.

In Widdershins, fantasy author Charles de Lint has delivered one of his most accessible and moving works of his career. Jilly Coppercorn and Geordie Riddell. Since they were introduced in the first Newford story, "Timeskip," back in 1989, their friends and readers alike have been waiting for them to realize what everybody else already knows: that they belong together. But they've been more clueless about how they feel for each other than the characters...