Castelio learned this hard lesson when he was a boy.
Now he roams from village to village as a Quietus, banishing restless spirits and keeping the Ducissa Orlaith’s peace—until the day her only son is kidnapped.
Blame falls on the land across the Boundary, where necromancers practice their black arts in eternal darkness.
To get the child back, Castelio recruits the aid of a young stranger named Delilah, along with her peculiar (and possibly demonic) cat Thistle. The pair has a habit of attracting violent thunderstorms, but their wind ship can cross the high mist-cloaked passes of the Boundary.
As the trail leads deeper into the wilds of midnight, Castelio and Delilah discover there are worse things than the risen dead. Yet nothing is quite as it seems in the Moon Courts. Despite the dangers all around, they find allies in unexpected places.
And choosing a side in the brewing war between light and dark magic might be harder than they imagined.
Buy NowFor readers who like their epic fantasy with richly layered magic, star-crossed romance, skin-crawling villains and twisty storylines. One is advised to tread cautiously in these realms, for secrets and dangers abound…
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