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All Remaining Warmth Was Escaping

3/19/2026

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Hello world  :)
The follow up to Within This Darkness, in the Douro-Zamość trilogy, is now in the production phase and will be ready soon. I hope (fingers crossed) to have copies by mid or late April.
I am planning a giveaway, but more on that below.
The title comes from a line in the book Imperium, by Ryszard Kapuściński.
Describing a moment when he was a child, in Poland after the Russian invasion at the beginning of WWII, 
Kapuściński gives this description of a group of hungry children waiting all night for a food shop to open in the morning:
The cold pierced through to the bone, cruel, crackling. Hands and feet went numb. To save ourselves, to last the night, we stood in line huddled tightly together, one close upon the other. Despite the chain in which we locked fiercely and desperately together, all remaining warmth was escaping. The snow was burying us more and more, blanketing us with a white, soft sheepskin.
There are many moments of cold and snow in All Remaining Warmth Was Escaping, and many moments of needing to "save oneself," and I loved this line for the title of the new book.

While Within This Darkness did have an alternate timeline, dating back to WWI and WWII, the new book has a much more significant timeline which follows Eva Obara in southeastern Poland during WWII. It also has another WWII timeline which follows members of the Kutzer family, Eva's enemies, as they flee Breslau, Germany, at the very end of the war.

The book blurb is:

In 2017, after being lost in time for over a century, fifteen-year-old Agata Obara searches for her sister, Dorota, who vanished into the devastation of south-eastern Poland during the Second World War. But the path to Dorota is bound to the secret history of another sister, Eva, and her desperate war against the magical Kutzer family – a war that leads to young Manfred Kutzer’s death march out of Breslau in winter 1945. As history and magic and generations bleed together, Agata’s cousin Jeremy struggles with his own awakening gifts, haunted by the feeling that some secrets are safer, if they are allowed to sleep undisturbed in the darkness.

The contest!
I will mail a paperback, print copy, to 10 people. And as some of you know, I have no hesitations in mailing books internationally - so you can be anywhere, geographically, to be a winner.

How to enter!
First, keep in mind that I will eventually need your physical postal mailing address, and your phone number (Canada Post always asks for the recipient's phone number now).
Otherwise, enter via this google form.
In April I will use the wheel of names spinner to choose the winners.

I might add that the new book will make very little sense if you haven't already read Within This Darkness... so if you're planning to enter this contest, please also consider getting your hands on book one of the series.

Best wishes and be well everyone :)
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    I'm Chris Tomasini.
    I'm currently working on a young adult trilogy, titled Within This Darkness.

    Why "be heroes together"? Because - as someone once told me - writing is hard. Writing well is almost impossible. And writing in a way that truly moves people is something that most of us will never achieve. But - to that we aspire. And to do that, we have to be heroes.

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