Enjoy books 1 and 2 in Stephen Lawhead's Bright Empires series! The Skin Map Enter the ultimate treasure hunt'with a map made of skin, a playing field of alternate realities, and a prize that is the greatest mystery of all. Kit Livingstone's great-grandfather has re-appeared with an unbelievable story'the'ley lines'throughout Britain are not merely the stuff of legends but truly are pathways to other worlds. So few people know how to use them, though, that doing so is fraught with danger. But one explorer knew more than most. Because of his fear of being unable to find his way home, he developed an intricate code and tattooed his map onto his skin. But the map has since been lost and rival factions are in desperate competition to recover it. What none of them yet realize is that the skin map itself is not the prize at the end of this race . . . but merely the first goal of a vast and marvelous quest to regain Paradise. The Bone House Kit Livingstone met his great-grandfather Cosimo in a rainy alley in London where he discovered the truth about alternate realities. Now he's on the run'and on a quest'trying to understand the impossible mission he inherited from Cosimo: to restore a map that charts the hidden dimensions of the multiverse. Survival depends on staying one step ahead of the savage Burley Men. The key is the Skin Map'but where it leads and what it means, Kit has no idea. The pieces have been scattered throughout this universe and beyond. Those who know how to use the ley lines have left their own world behind to travel across time and space'down avenues of Egyptian sphinxes, to an Etruscan tufa tomb, into a Bohemian coffee shop, and across a Stone Age landscape where universes collide'in this, the second quest to unlock the mystery of'The Bone House.