Dark parallel-world fantasy · LeoZeit, Book 1 · ages 12 and up · German edition

LeoZeit: Schatten

Name: LeoZeit: Schatten
Price: 12.99 EUR
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Author: Anna-Mariia Kostiuk

Leonberg, 1614 & today. A gate between two worlds — and Alicia right in the middle.

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What it is about

What has a town been hiding for four hundred years?

In the Pomeranzengarten of Leonberg a secret is growing — bitter and untouched. Nobody has ever learned of it. Until Alicia comes.

She has been here for a week, and already she sees the impossible: in the middle of summer, frost spreads across the rim of the well. The stone on her puppy’s collar turns warm — from a cold that does not come from this world.

Because next to this Leonberg lies a second one: the same streets, the same castle — only caught in an everlasting winter. And that winter is spreading. The border between them is blurring.

Alicia is the only one who can see him: a boy from the year 1614, lost between the worlds. To bring him home, she has to undo an old mistake.

But something is waiting in the ice — and it found her long ago.

Seven blossoms. Two worlds. One rift between them.

From the real Leonberg

Leo as a guest at the town hall

The Leonberger puppy Leo accompanies Alicia through the story — the same dog that was once bred to resemble the lion in the town’s coat of arms. As a family we had Leo painted: «Wächter Leo» by Vitalii Kostiuk. We handed the painting to Lord Mayor Tobias Degode at the town hall — a small piece of the world of LeoZeit, back in the real lion town.

The Kostiuk family at the town hall with Lord Mayor Tobias Degode and the painting Wächter Leo — At Leonberg town hall — the Kostiuk family with Lord Mayor Tobias Degode and the painting «Wächter Leo»

Josefa von Hohenzollern-Emden and Anna-Mariia Kostiuk with «LeoZeit: Schatten» — Josefa von Hohenzollern-Emden, Deputy Mayor, with her copy of «LeoZeit: Schatten»

The Deputy Mayor has her copy too. In July 2026 Josefa von Hohenzollern-Emden was our guest at home — and took «LeoZeit: Schatten» with her. A book set in her own town: in the castle, in the narrow lanes on the slope, in the old Pomeranzengarten. How the evening went →

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More than a book

A whole world made of the real Leonberg

The Pomeranzengarten, the castle, the well — LeoZeit is set in the real Leonberg and at the same time in a second one that lies caught in everlasting winter. Characters, places, a film and a soundtrack album: there is much more to discover.

Discover the world of LeoZeit →

The story continues

Book 2: Eis

Back on the day Alicia disappeared — in the world where nothing ever thaws.

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