Tordotcom Publishing is thrilled to announce Nommo Award finalist Kerstin Hall’s next standalone novel, Asunder, pitched as For the Wolf meets Sabriel by way of Dungeons & Dragons.
We choose our own gods here.
Karys Eska is a Deathspeaker, locked into an irrevocable compact with an eldritch being—three-faced, hundred-winged, unforgiving—who has granted her the ability to communicate with the newly departed. She pays the rent by using her abilities to investigate suspicious deaths. When a new case goes sideways and connects her to a dying stranger with some very dangerous secrets, her entire world is upended.
Ferain is willing to pay a ludicrous sum of money for her help. To save him, Karys inadvertently binds him to her very shadow, an act that may doom them both. Together, they must journey to the heart of a faded empire, haunted by arcane horrors, and the unquiet ghosts of their pasts.
And all too soon, Karys knows her debts will come due.
From author Kerstin Hall:
“I poured my heart into this one. Asunder is a little different from my previous work, but it also feels like a homecoming of sorts—a clear distillation of the fiction I want to write. I’m excited to be working with the team at Tordotcom Publishing, and hope that this story will find its readers.”
Asunder will be available from Tordotcom Publishing in Spring/Summer 2024
Kerstin Hall is the author of The Border Keeper, Second Spear, and Star Eater. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
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