“Because I’m an inbetweener—and the only one anyone knows of at
that—the dead turn to me when something is askew between them and the living.
Usually, it’s something mundane like a suicide gone wrong or someone revived
that shouldn’ta been.”
Carlos Delacruz is one of the New York Council of the Dead’s
most unusual agents—an inbetweener, partially resurrected from a death he
barely recalls suffering, after a life that’s missing from his memory. He
thinks he is one of a kind—until he encounters other entities walking the fine
line between life and death.
One inbetweener is a sorcerer. He’s summoned a horde of imp like
ngks capable of eliminating spirits, and they’re spreading through the city
like a plague. They’ve already taken out some of NYCOD’s finest, leaving Carlos
desperate to stop their master before he opens up the entrada to the
Underworld—which would destroy the balance between the living and the dead.
But in uncovering this man’s identity, Carlos confronts the
truth of his own life—and death.…
Darkblade must decide where his loyalties lie – will he follow
Malekith to the
It
has taken decades, but Malus Darkblade has finally plotted, schemed and
murdered his way to power, as the ruler of the city of Hag Graef and general of
the Witch King Malekith’s armies. But his position is imperilled when Malekith
orders an all-out assault on Ulthuan – with Darkblade in the vanguard. As he
wages war on the high elves, Darkblade must decide where his loyalties lie –
will he follow Malekith to the death, or will he finally rise up and try to
claim the throne of Naggaroth for himself? And either way, will he survive?
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