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Zügzwang
2017
First Published
4.38
Average Rating
46
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This is the 12th episode in the second season of The Witch Who Came In From The Cold, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Lindsay Smith. The Cold War gets magical when spies brush shoulders with sorcerers in this genre-defying serial created by Lindsay Smith and Max Gladstone. In Season 2, Episode 12, the Flame is on the verge of achieving their dreams of world destruction, forcing Tanya to make a life-changing decision. With options dwindling, Nadia and Josh make desperate plans while Zerena makes a deadly move. Throughout Prague the spies and sorcerers scramble for their lives as only one episode is left in Season 2 of The Witch Who Came In From The Cold. Welcome to Prague, 1970: the epicenter in a Cold War of spies and sorcerers. The streets are a deadly chessboard on which the CIA and KGB make their moves, little dreaming that a deeper game is being played between the Consortium of Ice and the Acolytes of Flame, ancient factions of sorcery.

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Author

Lindsay Smith
Lindsay Smith
Author · 20 books
Lindsay is the author of multiple novels for young adults, including Sekret and A Darkly Beating Heart, as well as the comic series Black Swan. She is the showrunner and lead writer for Serial Box's The Witch Who Came In From the Cold, a Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 2017. Her short stories and comics have appeared in the anthologies A Tyranny of Petticoats, Strange Romance Vol. 3, and Toil & Trouble and on Tor.com. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband and dog.
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