The Crown Beneath the Ash
At Vael's Crossing, Captain Aldric Morvane stands in mud turned to blood and surveys a hollow victory, unaware that the smoke rising from the broken earth carries a more dangerous
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Neon Halo
When Lazarus Crowe falls from the burning spires of Halo Dominion, he brings ruin, and something far more dangerous, through the cathedral doors. Elara Voss, bound by a decade of d
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Vows Written in Venom
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The Preacher's Blood
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What Sleeps in Harrow Hollow
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The Hollow Crown of Verrath
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The Lingering
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Amos Vell has spent his life carrying other people's dead across country roads that no magistrate will patrol. Now, with a storm gathering over Brackenscar Ravine and a broken brid
The Frost Beneath
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The Calculus of Consent
A body in the fog outside an Uptown theater is the kind of case Cole Vance usually avoids, messy, political, and guaranteed to offend the wrong people. But when defense attorney Pe
The Bone Cathedral
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Ashen Crown, Iron Hands
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The Hollowing Season
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Pulsepoint
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The Ledger of Graves
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Vicious merger
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Hellride
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