Elizabeth Hand 
Mortal Love 

Swirling between eras and continents,
Mortal Love is an intense novel of unforgettable characters caught in a whirlwind of art, love, and intrigue. Mercurial Larkin Meade may hold the key to lost artistic masterpieces, and to secrets too devastating to imagine. Is there an undying moment? An immortal muse? Is there … an angel of death?


Cover illustration by Lindsay Carr.

Table of Content

PART ONE: PRELUDE


1. Lost On Both Sides

2. The Trees of the Garden


PART TWO: LONDON BOYS


3. Love Disguised as Reason

4. Chill October

5. The Eve of St. Agnes

6. Ferdinand Lured by Ariel

7. The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell



PART THREE: THE GLITTERING GIRL


8. The Beckoning Fair One

9. The Entombment

10. Contradiction

11. The Rock and Castle of Seclusion

12. The Disenchantment of Bottom

13. Radborne & Evienne

14. The Dog Jumps Down



PART FOUR: THE ORDER OF RELEASE


15. The Master Stroke

About the author

Elizabeth Hand, a
New York Times notable author, has written nine novels and several short-story collections. Her novel
Generation Loss received the Shirley Jackson Award. She has also received the Tiptree, Nebula (twice), and World Fantasy (four times) awards, among others. Hand is a longtime contributor to numerous publications, including the
Washington Post Book World and the
Village Voice Literary Supplement. She divides her time between the coast of Maine and North London.