the Seven Walk: a Novel of Waking Powers and Lie Beneath Holy War

The world always said two great powers were sealed away. The world miscounted. The door is open now, and they are coming through one at a time - and each is a different kind of wrong. A woman no wound will hold, who laughs while you spend your life trying to kill her. A thing that pours itself into anyone already hollow and wears their face to your door. A charming man, a century out of fashion, who turns blood into family and family into an army. They do not march together. They scatter into the country like rumor, and the country has no word for what is loose in it. Only one thing ever held them back: an order of holy killers who have hunted monsters for a thousand years. And one tired hunter has just pulled a loose thread in his own order's records - a page no one can remember reading, a kill that was never ordered - and begun to unravel a truth so large it will eat the men who carved it. Meanwhile three proud Houses, certain of their place at the top of the world, begin to come apart from the inside. A beloved swordsman lays down his blade and will not say why. A pure bloodline starts to move wrong. A circle of bound sight watches, helplessly, as one of its own becomes something it will have to kill. And out on the eastern road, the woman who is older than all of them feels the count come out wrong - six where there should be a number, a name that slides off the page the moment she reads it. Someone has been missing on purpose. For nine hundred years. This is the book where the dark widens. Where the question stops being who will win and becomes who has been lying since the beginning. Seven walk. Only one of them was never meant to be remembered. Mind your sleeves. The count is wrong.

Pagina's: 359, Paperback, Independently published