The Demon's Peace - Couverture souple

Shaw, Kell

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1922897140 ISBN 13 : 9781922897145

Editeur : Kell Shaw Books, 2026

Synopsis

She buried her daughter. Made a deal with a demon. Then went hunting.

When Sabyse’s daughter is murdered on her wedding day, the corrupt authorities can’t help.

Thaena Ashmore can. She's a legendary demonic assassin. Except she's done with human vengeance and has little interest in anything except mourning her lost love.

To gain the vengeance she craves, Sabyse has no choice but to shatter Thaena's peaceful retirement, forcing the assassin into a contract that drags her back onto the path of blood. Bound by a fraught alliance, the two women must navigate a conspiracy that stretches back fifty years and confront their own terrible truths.

A dark fantasy featuring crime lords, necromancers, supernatural warfare, and long-dead secrets that refuse to stay buried. Perfect for fans of ML Wang's The Sword of Kaigen, and Joe Abercrombie's Best Served Cold.

Pick up The Demon's Peace, a standalone book in the Cambion Chronicles series.

This book features:

Two scarred women in a reluctant partnership, pushed to confront truths neither wants to face.

• Over-40s protagonist: a relentless, ordinary widow running on grief and fury.
• A legendary assassin forced out of retirement, scarred by her own past.

Unique setting: a pirate island riddled with crime lords, necromancers, and buried wartime secrets

Expect:

• Occult infiltration
• Psychological horror
• Supernatural warfare

Heat Level:

No overt romance. The fraught relationship between the two protagonists is the engine that drives the story, forcing them to confront secrets they would prefer stay buried.

Ending: Standalone. Set before the first book, with a different main protagonist. Series threads continue into future books.

POV: Third person, dual POVs

Content Notes: Violence, death, supernatural horror, demons, ghosts, magic, domestic abuse

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kell Shaw writes dark fantasy where the modern world collides with ancient magic, and where desperate survivors make dangerous bargains for power. His current two series are the Cambion Chronicles, a saga of two half-demon sisters, both assassins, born centuries apart, and the Revenant Records, about a young woman who returns from the dead to solve her own murder twenty years later. Both series unfold in the Vestiges of Magic universe, inspired by the mythic resonance of The Lord of the Rings and the gothic noir of The World of Darkness. A queer writer, Kell crafts characters driven by their choices, where what they do matters more than what they are. He lives in Sydney, Australia with his partner and two cats.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kell Shaw Books
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1922897140
• ISBN 13: 9781922897145
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg