“There is no doubt in my mind that Kerstin Hall is one of the great imaginative minds writing fantasy today.“—Isabel Cañas, USA Today Bestselling author of Vampires of El Norte

Sabriel meets For the Wolf in Nommo Award finalist Kerstin Hall’s beguiling new standalone novel. A LitHub most anticipated book of 2024.

We choose our own gods here.

Karys Eska is a deathspeaker, locked into an irrevocable compact with Sabaster, a terrifying 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 around the troubled city she calls home. When a job goes sideways and connects her to a dying stranger with some very dangerous secrets, her entire world is ...

“There is no doubt in my mind that Kerstin Hall is one of the great imaginative minds writing fantasy today.“—Isabel Cañas, USA Today Bestselling author of Vampires of El Norte

Sabriel meets For the Wolf in Nommo Award finalist Kerstin Hall’s beguiling new standalone novel. A LitHub most anticipated book of 2024.

We choose our own gods here.

Karys Eska is a deathspeaker, locked into an irrevocable compact with Sabaster, a terrifying 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 around the troubled city she calls home. When a job goes sideways and connects her to a dying stranger with some very dangerous secrets, her entire world is ...