Runes & Wings
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She shares her mind with a demon. Now something worse wants to dissect them both.
Silva Zorski has survived as Houston's most dangerous witch for hire by keeping her guard up and her
demon companion Ash closer. When a ritualistic murder reveals an elaborate summoning circle and
unleashes a shapeshifting nightmare through the city streets, she discovers someone is collecting
supernatural aberrations. The kind of collection that requires live specimens.
Her investigation leads to a pale man who moves through mirrors and nullifies magic with a glance, an
entity with no records in any database. Desperate for answers, Silva infiltrates her former magical
academy's forbidden archives and uncovers a horrifying truth: a scientist who experimented on magical
beings has transformed into something inhuman, and he has been hunting people like her for decades.
As Silva assembles a team of outcasts and monsters for a final confrontation, she learns victory might
cost her more than she imagined.
This dark urban fantasy blends supernatural horror, found family dynamics, and visceral action into a
gritty tale of survival and connection. With morally complex characters navigating Houston's occult
underworld and explicit content throughout, no punches are pulled as isolation becomes the ultimate
weapon.
Dive into this gripping supernatural thriller and get your copy today before the price changes
Michael Bailey
Michael Bailey is a recipient and ten-time nominee of the Bram Stoker Award, a five-time Shirley Jackson Award nominee, and a three-time recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award. He is the author of the composite novels Hangtown, Psychotropic Dragon, Phoenix Rose, and Palindrome Hannah, fiction and poetry collections such as The Impossible Weight of Life, Oversight, Inkblots and Blood Spots, Scales and Petals, as well as Forever Velveteen, a sequel to The Velveteen Rabbit. His edited anthologies include The Library of the Dead, Prisms, Adam's Ladder, Pellucid Lunacy, Miscreations, Long Division, and the Chiral Mad, Qualia Nous, and You, Human series, most of which are illustrated. He is also a producer and screenwriter for various film projects and lives in the Southern Caribbean.
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