Veil series is a series of fantasy and horror fiction novels by the award-winning novelist the American Christopher Golden. Golden published the first novel in the Veil series The Myth Hunters in 2006. The novel that made the lead Oliver Bascombe a household character went on to attain much critical acclaim and fan popularity. After the publication of the first novel in the series, Christopher Golden went on to publish two more titles in the series over the following two years that were even more popular than the first. Similar to the Landover series of novels by Terry Brooks the novels introduce an unfulfilled lawyer that lives in an alternate fantasy fiction world. The series of novels is set in the Veil, an alternate reality, the mythic realm of monsters and heroes, where even the most ordinarily looking of people have legends. Through the lead character, Golden takes his readers through his …show more content…
Caving in to his father’s demands Bascombe joined the family law firm giving up his dream of becoming an actor. He is set to get married to his childhood sweetheart but on the eve of his wedding, an icy legend comes with the blizzard to question everything he has ever believed in. The winter man Jack Frost is running from a murderous creature that is not held back by any walls. Jack lives in an alternate reality world and now needs Oliver’s help in saving him and his world from being displaced by Oliver’s. To be of any help to Frost, the attorney at law needs to transform himself from lawyer to adventurer, hero, and then hunted. He is now on an interesting journey that sees him move travel between two realities where he finds that he is free despite all the danger and challenges his new realities