Publisher's Synopsis
"Spring-heeled Jack guides a new messiah across a post-apocalyptic wasteland."The world has been destroyed by nuclear fire, but the survivors are not plagued by radiation and nuclear winter but by monsters, creatures brought up from the very depths of Hell itself. Six-year-old Maria holds the power of the future in the form of a drawing book and the crayons she values so dearly. With the power of the book of creation in her little hands, her only hope is the literal bogeyman, her dark guardian, Spring-heeled Jack. Together the pair wander the wastelands and travel north toward a final, end result where the fate of the world is at stake. With Jack as her only defense against the unnatural creatures that prowl in the darkness, Maria must trust that the tall and slender man in black will not be defeated by every other evil in existence, and that he will not slaughter the other people that enter Maria's life. Pursued by vampires, werewolves, and the Grim Reaper himself, Jack must protect Maria against all dangers, human and monster, at the expense of his own twisted existence.The Bell, The Book, and The Candle series introduces Jack and Maria and the challenges they face as they journey north through the broken wastelands of the southern United States.
