Get an early look at the cover and first chapter of Evocation, the start of a new fantasy series from A Dowry of Blood author S.T. Gibson.
was one of 2022’s most decadent horror novels, and the author is now poised to step into the fantasy space withA contemporary story set in a version of Boston that’s riddled with magic, the story follows an alcoholic psychic who must team with his sorcerer ex-boyfriend—and said ex-boyfriend’s astrologer wife—to save himself from a family curse.
He had been juggling full time work and a thriving private occult practice ever since graduating law school, not to mention weekly secret Society meetings, and he would rather donate his entire fortune to charity than walk away from any of it. David was like a diamond, forged under pressure and made entirely of hard, cutting edges.
Cold feet, then. Typical. There was no way he was cutting his losses and driving back to Fenway now, though, not when he was wired after a long week on the job and ready to, quite literally, raise the dead. The door swung open to reveal a wizened but glamorous woman in her seventies, wearing a purple silk headscarf and large tortoiseshell glasses. She took David in appraisingly, flicking her eyes across his wood-inlay summer Rolex and monogrammed cufflinks. He was still dressed for his day job, in his bespoke shirt and slacks that cost more than what most men paid for their wedding suit.
It was whispered that a long time ago, before Martin Luther had even written his treatise and plunged Europe into holy war, an Aristarkhov made a deal with the Devil. One thousand years of servitude for an apprenticeship in the art of persuasion, with a crash course in the occult arts thrown in to sweeten the pot. It was difficult to say whether there was any truth to the claim.
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