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FANTASY FICTION. The stunning debut fantasy novel from author Peter Brett. The Painted Man, book one of the Demon trilogy, is a captivating and thrilling fantasy adventure. Mankind has ceded the night to the corelings: demons that rise up out of the ground each day at dusk, killing and destroying at will until dawn, when the sun banishes them back to the Core. As darkness falls, the world's few surviving humans hide behind magical wards, praying that the magic will see them through another night. Born into these isolated hamlets are three children. These three children all have something in common. They are all stubborn, and know that there is more to the world than what they've been told, if only they can risk leaving their safe wards to find it.