by Hal Duncan
First published 2013
In the city where names rot away, a prince walks through the end times while warriors clash for control of souls. Four interconnected stories weave together as characters navigate a place where words themselves become weapons and reality shifts like broken glass. The prince must reach the tower built from morning's bones while the city's heart pulses with temporal chaos. Each story reflects the others, creating multiple angles on the same desperate struggle. The battle rages not just in streets and buildings but in the very fabric of language and meaning. Victory means claiming the city's soul, but the cost may be losing everything that makes victory worth having. This is urban fantasy stripped down to its mythic core, where every word carries the weight of creation and destruction.
Genres: literary-fiction, fantasy, magical-realism, urban-fantasy
Vibes: dark, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: epic, mythic
Setting: City
Period: End Times
89 pages · Paperback · New Sodom Press
Content warnings: violence