Michael Moorcock 
Blood 
A Southern Fantasy

The first installment of Second Ether trilogy by the award-winning author of Cornelius Chronicles. The world is swirling with entropic decay, opening pockets of chaos that draw unsuspecting souls into a paralled universe. Blood tells the heartbreaking story of two pairs of star-crossed lovers caught between the old world, a lawless society ruled by gamblers and riverboat captains, and the new reality called the "Second Ether".