a queer romantic fantasy for fans of
Six of Crows and Godkiller
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Enter a world filled with powdered drugs, ruthless gangs, forest spirits, old gods, and explosive chemistry

Yom has found a simple solution to avoiding the obsessive thoughts that have haunted her since childhood: burying herself beneath powdered drugs, bodies, and coin. But when her gang’s leader demands loyalty at all costs, Yom’s position as the gang’s head chemist comes under threat. Forced to investigate, she crosses paths with a cagey royal archivist named Quia as they unearth a horrifying conspiracy to reopen the ancient war that ripped the world in two.

Quia offers a tenuous solution: cross the dangerous network of provinces to reach the queendom’s capitol, and seek the one mythical person capable of halting the forces of war. On the treacherous odyssey, Yom reckons with blood-thirsty crime lords, the queen’s personal guard, bounty hunters, forest spirits, old gods, and the specter of a friend she lost as a child—her first love—who might still be alive out there. The chemist must face her addiction to powder, her growing feelings for Quia, and the obsessive thoughts that threaten to tear her mind in two, lest she lose herself in her quest to save the world.
about the author
Rebecca Brodkey is based in Chicago, Illinois. She is a digital designer, physics nerd and fantasy enthusiast. Darker than the Starless Night is her debut novel.
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There was someone who could protect her, fill the painful void that had been ripped open in her.
All she had to do was give this creature everything.
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