"There is no doubt in my mind that Kerstin Hall is one of the great imaginative minds writing fantasy today."--Isabel Ca?as, USA Today Bestselling author of Vampires of El Norte
Sabriel meets Witch King in Nommo Award finalist Kerstin Hall's beguiling new novel. A LitHub most anticipated book of 2024.
We choose our own gods here. Karys Eska is a deathspeaker, locked into an irrevocable compact with Sabaster, a terrifying eldritch being--three-faced, hundred-winged, unforgiving--who has granted her the ability to communicate with the newly departed. She pays the rent by using her abilities to investigate suspicious deaths around the troubled city she calls home. When a job goes sideways and connects her to a dying stranger with some very dangerous secrets, her entire world is upended.
Ferain is willing to pay a ludicrous sum of money for her help. To save him, Karys inadvertently binds him to her shadow, an act that may doom them both. If they want to survive, they will need to learn to trust one another. Together, they must journey to the heart of a faded empire, all the while haunted by arcane horrors, and the unquiet ghosts of their pasts.
And all too soon, Karys knows her debts will come due.
Author: Kerstin HallPublisher: Tordotcom
Published: 08/20/2024
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.38w x 1.43d
ISBN13: 9781250625434
ISBN10: 1250625432
BISAC Categories:-
Fiction |
Fantasy | Action & Adventure-
Fiction |
Fantasy | EpicAbout the Author
Kerstin Hall is the author of The Border Keeper, Second Spear, and Star Eater. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
