"The Night Bazaar isn't your standard charming little street market. It's not constrained by geography or time. One week it's in present-day New York, and the next ... well, let's say Italy in the 1300s, shall we? For this time, we return to the Bazaar's roots in 14th-century Venice. As the exotic marketplace pitches its tents in the city of a hundred canals, masked revelries and singing gondoliers divert its inhabitants from the Black Death creeping through their alleys and waterways. The aisles roil with foreign vendors, dancers, jongleurs, acrobats, mountebanks, courtesans, and purveyors of curious objects d'art. Stalls feature medical oddities and strange instruments. Tents offer uncanny services. But for all the Bazaar's wonders, the Plague still threatens the complacent citizens of Venice. Still, the Bazaar sells that which cannot be had elsewhere, at any price. Everything you thought had passed away, or never existed. How wrong you were! For Madame Vera and the denizens of the Night Bazaar can take you ... well, anytime, anywhere. You need only be Invited. And now you *have been*." --page 4 of cover