Part of InCryptid, book 8
First published 2019
Antimony Price is on the run in New Gravesend, Maine, cut off from her family, her mice, and every safety net she has ever known. She fled the Covenant of St. George and landed herself in debt to the crossroads, which is about as bad as it sounds. She has managed to pull together a small crew: Sam, her fūri trapeze artist boyfriend; Cylia, a jink and roller derby captain; Fern, a sylph who makes breakfast and keeps secrets; and Mary, the Price family ghost babysitter. It almost feels like enough. Then the crossroads call in what Annie owes. James Smith lost his best friend to a crossroads bargain gone wrong, and now the crossroads want him dead. They want Annie to be the one who does it. She owes them, after all. And before she can figure a way around that, Leonard Cunningham shows up, the man being groomed to lead the Covenant. Annie has to find a way out of an impossible contract, protect people she has just started to care about, and keep a Covenant hunter off her back. Getting home means solving all of it. Failing means becoming the next warning story people tell about making deals at crossroads.
Genres: adventure, fantasy, contemporary, young-adult, urban-fantasy
Vibes: action-packed, atmospheric, darkly-humorous, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-allies, forced-proximity, found-family, on-the-run
Setting: New Gravesend, Maine, Covenant of St. George
Period: 21st-century, contemporary
448 pages · Paperback · DAW
Content warnings: death, violence